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| 298538 | 2004-12-01 05:23:00 | Until recently I have been using a camera that uses block USB (i.e. it gets recognized just like a pen drive). I have updated my camera to one that only uses PTP (Photograph Transfer Protocol). This method seems considerably slower than block USB - you cannot do anything until all the files have been read on the flash card and this takes ages. I thought it might be related to the size of the files, but it doesn't. My question is this slow speed due to: 1. the flash card itself 2. the PTP protocol being slower than block USB? OS is SuSE 9.1. My main OS is still RH9 but about to update to SuSE9.2 Prof. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 298539 | 2004-12-01 06:03:00 | Could it be the speed of USB 1.x? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 298540 | 2004-12-02 00:58:00 | It's probably the protocol --- or the camera ;-). The flash card is still a flash card, probably with an FAT32 file system. Try using a card reader. That will use the card as a removable disk. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 298541 | 2004-12-02 07:29:00 | Graham - that would be my guess too. www.flashcards.co.nz have a card reader for $25.00. How robust are the flash cards - can they take plugging into a USB card reader and back into the camera repeatedly? |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 298542 | 2004-12-02 09:33:00 | Yep, that's what I do with mine. I don't bother plugging the camera in any more. The card reader is faster and no mucking around with cables. The cards themselves are very robust. I read somewhere, where they got a bunch of different card types and froze, cooked, drowned, bashed with hammers, dirtied and generally mistreated them and most kept going in some capacity until the end of the tests. They even drove 4" nails through them and managed to get data off a few (the CF's I think), not all of it, but hey, what do you expect :) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 298543 | 2004-12-02 09:39:00 | Hammers they used must have been made with candy floss then, Im sure one good swing with a nice robust hammer would kill any memory card . hmmmm I have a next to useless 16mb card . . . . . . . . . and a good hammer . . . . . . Personly i find the single action of inserting the usb cable into my camera far more convenient then opening flap,yanking out memory card,inserting card into card read . . . whoa, . . . . . goddamn i must be lazy . . . . Better go hit stuff with my hammer . roflmao . |
metla (154) | ||
| 298544 | 2004-12-02 09:52:00 | > Personly i find the single action of inserting the > usb cable into my camera far more convenient then > opening flap,yanking out memory card,inserting card > into card read... > > > whoa,.....goddamn i must be lazy.... > > > > Better go hit stuff with my hammer. > > > roflmao. What're you getting in a flap for Met's? I just leave the reader plugged in and pop the card in the slot, no flaps on this one :) |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 298545 | 2004-12-02 09:57:00 | Memory card in my camera is behind a flap,and truth betold so is the usb.....Just spied it now,honest. | metla (154) | ||
| 298546 | 2004-12-02 10:43:00 | Ahh, the old camera flap, didn't consider that one diid I, and truth be told my front USB ports have a flap as well. But it's a bit difficult to close it with the card reader and what have you plugged in. WiFi camera it'll have to be then. | Murray P (44) | ||
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