Re: Assessing USB Mass Storage devices

Mark C wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 15:25, Thomas Dodd wrote:
>>It almost sounds like a custom filesystem.
>>Did you install drivers for it in XP?
> 
> 
> Now you mentioned that, it does sort off seem that way, 
> I did install its drivers, think I'll try to get hold of their tech
> support dept 

You could check the kernel list and/or the USB list.
Someone there might know more. You could also use dd
to pull a few blocks off the disk, that someone could
analyse.

That's the best solution.

Other ideas.

Save all the pictures first.
Back up the device with 'dd if=/dev/sda of=camara.img'
You can always look through the image with and editor.
Or write it back to the camera (swap if/of in dd command)
To restore the previous state.

In windows try fdisk on the device.
and look for clues.

Try 'mkfs.vfat /dev/sda' and see it you can
put a different filesystem on it. Then see if
the camera can access it, or if it reformats
it back to the other.

In linux, run fdisk /dev/sda.
create a partition sda1 and try the above on it.

	-Thomas