Re: VMS and digital cameras

From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 12/31/04


Date: 31 Dec 2004 07:31:58 -0600

In article <6.2.0.14.2.20041231073424.04792fb0@mail.patmedia.net>, Ken Robinson <kenrbnsn1@patmedia.net> writes:
> At 03:09 AM 12/31/2004, JF Mezei wrote (in part):
>>USB is standard, as well as the DOS FAT disk format. The Camera presents
>>itself as a FAT formatted hard disk drive.
>>
>>So VMS needs to learn to see a drive being added dynamically (you don't want
>>to have to reboot your VMS box just to see the new drive provided by your
>>camera), and able to mount FAT devices.
>
> VMS already has that ability (at least 7.3.1 on Alphas does). Attach the
> new drive and do a "$ mc sysman io auto" and the drive will appear if
> everything was done correctly. How do you think newly created virtual
> drives on the EVA and/or XP virtual storage devices are made useable by VMS

Digital camera use should require something less than system management
privileges.



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