Re: Mounting a USB Camera as an external hard-drive

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Will a normal usb stick type MSD work as expected? If so, check if the
cameras you have problems with really implement the MSD function. It
has become increasingly common to implement PTP (Picture Transfer
Protocol) instead.

Henrik Viklund
http://www.addlogic.se

Matt_UK wrote:
Thank you for that.

I've not tried Sony or Nikon, but several modern Canons (including the A620
and the 300D/Digital Rebel) all cause CE to come up with a prompt for a
driver. Perhaps what I'm after is the USB-related SYSGEN values I need to
make sure that any USB mass-storage device would be supported.

These are the USB-related SYSGENs currently in my build:

SYSGEN_USBFN=1
SYSGEN_USB_HID_KEYBOARD=1
SYSGEN_USB_HID_MOUSE=1
sysgen_srv_demo_usbflash=1
sysgen_usb=1
sysgen_usb_hid=1
sysgen_usb_hid_clients=1
sysgen_usb_storage=1
sysgen_usbfn_ethernet=1
sysgen_usbfn_serial=1

Anything missing, do we reckon?

Regards,

Matt


"Valter Minute" wrote:

=?Utf-8?B?TWF0dF9VSw==?= <MattUK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hey there.

I'm trying to plug in various common USB digital cameras into a
test Windows CE board. My aim is to have the camera storage appear
as a mounted volume when the camera is connected to my CE device
via USB.

There have been several questions around the subject, but most
people seem to want some sort of webcam behaviour, whereas all I
want to do is have CE 'see' the camera as a new drive so I can
grab the files off it.


You can already mount a digital camera as mass-storage device if it
supports the USB mass-storage protocol.
Many digital cameras (nikon, sony and other brands) support this kind
of functionality.
If you need to support other cameras that don't support the USB mass-
storage interface you'll have to understand the protocol they use (it
may be documented by the manufacturer) and build a filesystem driver
to let the OS access the files.


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