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06 Aug 2011 07:07:54 -0000
Aug 2011 07:07:53 -0000
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Stephan Bucher ha scritto:
> Right. It is just a bit frustrating that the card in the USB reader is 
> recognized by eCS (a drive letter is assigned upon contact) but then 
> "the device can not be accessed", even with FAT32 installed. Windows 
> shows that the card's FS is FAT32.
>   
Never believe what dummy computers order you to believe.

Most, if not all new cams (since 2008 or so) have their own proprietary "cam
file system".

For instance, with my two cams Sony Cybershot  DSC-H5 and Sony Cybershot
DSC-HX1 and a 16 GB Memory stick pro duo.

When changing that stick from the one cam to the other, the other cam has to
reformat the memory card, otherwise it couldn't store pictures. Because the
cam needs something very proriatary on the memory stick.

That's because the cam's hardcoded software needs it to be so. The same
hardcoded software let's Windy believe the file system is fat32, and the very
same software makes the memory card readable for and downloadable to Windy.

Bottom line, it looks like fat32 but it isn't fat32. And as (of course) cam
manufacturers don't know anything about eCS, they don't make their hardcoded
cam software compatible with eCS. Moreover, even the MAC is considered as
something neglisable.

For instance (again) with the  Cybershot DSC-HX1.

The video mpeg files are stored in a separate directory on the memory stick.
Albeit the cam has been set to PTP, eCS can't see that directory. Worse, even
my MAC computer can't see that directory. Not when the cam had been set to
PTP, and worse, the MAC can't see that directory either when the cam had been
set to "Mass storage". Albeit the MAC believes too the stick is a FAT32
thingie.
Which means video files  only can be downloaded from the Sony DSC-HX1 to Windy.

Bottom line, as it stands now PTP is our only reliable resource if we are
concerned about new cams.  
And even PTP has it's restrictions now. (-:


-- 
Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris




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