Steve Wendt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I just got an Olympus SP-350 camera.  The USB connection works quite nicely in 
> Linux, so I thought I would try getting it working in OS/2 as well.  I
installed the 
> latest (10.162) USB Basic and MSD drivers, and they all load quite
happily.  When 
> I attach the camera, it gets assigned a drive letter.  However, I
cannot access it - it 
> gave it the wrong geometry, or something.
>
> I found Yuri Dario's old patch for Olympus cameras, but the hex sequence listed 
> isn't in the latest USBMSD drivers.  I also tried CWUSBMSD, but that does the 
> same thing as the latest IBM driver.
>
> Anyone have clever suggestions?  I intend to buy an XD-Picture card and 
> XD->USB adapter for it, so perhaps that will work better...
>   
Hi Steve,

Did you look at the camera's "drive" with DFSOS2.EXE, to see what
geometry it's actually reporting?  ;-)

It's probably using a VFAT16 filesystem, like my Palm Tungsten E2 and my
Motorola V3X.
When I mounted either the Motorola's PHONE component [64MB], or the 64MB
MicroSD card [SanDisk Transflash] in OS/2-eCS I was able to read the 8.3
names from the VFAT filesystem, but on reinserting the card in the V3X,
Motorola said the 64MB card had e.g. 58MB free, 4GB used, and it had a
total capacity of ZERO MB! I though "no sweat" - I'll just use the V3X
to re-format the card! Doing that resulted in the usual "this will
delete ... are you sure?", and answering in the affirmative resulted in
an instant "format failed!" :-(

Taking the {circa 6mm x 4mm} MicroSD card, which comes with a full-sized
SDRAM adapter, and mounting it in the Tungsten, the Tungsten said "Card
ID such and such" inserted - do you want to format it?" Said
"Yes" and
it happily formatted the card - putting a "Tungsten file-system" format
directory-tree additional to the Motorola-format-directory-tree, which
it _didn't_ erase! =-O

I haven't yet had time to try-out the VFAT2EA facility with it.

My 512MB USB2.0 Legend (now LENOVO!) Pendrive Pro has had a number of
different geometries, to get around the 1024-cylinder problem, and they
all seem to work OK, whether formatted as FAT16, HPFS or JFS. I notice
there are a few 4GB "drives" around at the moment - saw a new Sony Micro
Vault one last night [Thursday] at the opening of a new Sony Central
store I was invited to -- they had 3 door prizes, but weren't giving
away the new BlueRay High Definition burner model of the Sony VAIO
[AR18GP] - tongue's hanging out after seeing that one! :-D

-- 
Regards,
Mike

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