Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Aug 1999 06:24:55 -0700 (PDT) | From | Robert Dinse <> | Subject | Digital Cameras and 2.2.10 stability on Sparc SMP platforms... |
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James Willard <james@whispering.org> wrote: > > From: James Willard <james@whispering.org> > Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 22:04:08 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Re: Digital Cameras... > > Buy one of the cameras that stores the images on 3.5" floppies as JPEGs. > They can be a bit more pricey, but it's nice not having to worry about > running out of flash ram before you can offload the images. > > James Willard, CCNA > james@whispering.org
Thanks, but the amount of data a 3.5 floppy stores really doesn't make that very workable except for very low resolution images.
At this point, CoolPix 950 is at the top of my list, since a number of list members were so kind as to point me to the existance of gphoto (www.gphoto.org) which does support that camera, and I received mail from several saying that they were using it with that camera and that it worked well, I feel comfortable going that route.
Also, I'm told the format used on the memory cards is just a DOS file system, so I ought to be able to get a SCSI card drive and just mount it on a Linux box as a DOS file system.
I can't say how thrilled I am to have found out there is a way to do this without having to go to a Mickeysoft box... Now if these stability problems on 2.2.x under Sparc SMP systems can be solved...
With the patches various people sent applied, now the machine lasted five days before a crash which is just about a record for 2.2.x on this box, this is on an SS-10 with quad hypersparc CPU's. I'll post further details when I find them, someone rebooted while I was asleep so I don't know if it was the usual crash or something different yet.
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