Re: [PARPORT] Sony MSAC PR1

From: Joshua Jore (moomonk@ns.electricgod.net)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 12:22:37 EST

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    Well... if the right protocol is epat, you could try updating to 1.02 by
    applying http://www.electricgod.net/~moomonk/epat. If that works (or
    doesn't) I'd really like to hear about it.

    Josh

    On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 Jean-Marc.Notin@loria.fr wrote:

    > Hi all !
    >
    > I have a Sony DSC-D770 camera, and it comes with a parallel port
    > adapter for downloading images from the camera. This adapter works well
    > under Windows, but I'd like to be able to use it under linux.
    > In fact, images are written to a memory stick through a PC-Card
    > adapter, which plug into the MSAC-PR1 (the parallel adapter); the
    > PC-Card can also be plugged to a PCMCIA port: it is intended to work as
    > well...
    > The parallel adapter seems to be based on the Shuttle EPATHD
    > protocol. I've tried to use EPAT protocol with paride, but loading the
    > pd (or pg, pf, pcd) module fails to autoprobe.
    > In fact, EPAT seems to be designed for parallel ATAPI devices,
    > and EPATHD only for IDE Hard Disk parallel devices.
    >
    > I have searched for specifications of the EPATHD protocol on the
    > Internet, but I have found nothing useful...
    >
    > I hate being obliged to use W..., so if someone has a solution
    > for my problem, it could make my life look better ;)
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > --
    > Jean-Marc Notin
    > PhD student, LORIA (France)
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