ANN: New USB Drive Library

[Stephen Barncard]

Len, I've been investigating time-lapse photography lately. This 
crowd has the interface information you might need to complete your 
project. You might consider a second interface (LANC) for additional 
control of your camera.

http://www.boehmel.de/lanc.htm

http://irdeo.de/eirdeo.htm




>While I'm sure there a dll call you could use, the only way I've 
>found so far is to download a utility from MS (devcon.exe). This 
>tool is basically a command line version of "Device Manager" so it 
>can be used for much more than USB drives.  If you do a Google 
>search, there a several people that have written C versions of this 
>same basic code so I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to write an 
>external for Rev.
>
>As to using "the volumes" to get the drive letters, it does in fact 
>return a list of drive letters but doesn't tell you anything about 
>the drives (other than the letters) so I'm not sure how to match 
>them up.
>
>Lastly, in Linux, I think you can just run the "mount" command and 
>it will return a list of mounted drives.  If automount is running, 
>when you plugin a thumb drive it should be mounted and then show up 
>in the list.
>
>My final problem, and this may be unique to me, is that I want to 
>leave a digital camera hooked up to a computer and be able to read 
>the photos out of it.  The problem is that apparently digital 
>cameras (I've tried several) detect the connection to the computer 
>and turn themselves off until you unplug.  I guess what I need is a 
>way to power down a USB port so the camera is fooled into thinking 
>that it has been disconnected.  This may not be possible.
>
>Len Morgan
>

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stephen barncard
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