On Sunday, February 23, 2003 7:33 PM, Don Calfa wrote:
 
> The camera is the SONY DSC-P7, gphoto2 and gtkam can attach to it but 
> they cannot delete the files (known issue - reason for buying 
> the card reader)

I have a Sony DSC-S75, which also uses the Sony Memory Stick as its storage
medium.  From looking at the specs for you camera on www.dpreview.com, it
looks like our cameras are pretty similar.  I am able to mount the media
while it is in the camera, and have no problems deleting files from the
memory stick.  
 
> I've been putting in /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda    /mnt/memcard    tmpfs    user,rw        0 0

I have a line like this in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1	/mnt/camera		vfat    rw,noauto,user    0 0

I connect my camera to a USB port on my Linux box (RedHat 8.0) and run
"mount /mnt/camera" (or click on the device icon I created on my KDE3
desktop), and I am able to see the photos on the memory stick in my camera.
I am able to copy them to my harddrive, remove them, and even add files to
the memory stick.  I wonder if the problem is that you're using tmpfs as
your filesystem type.  What if you change that to vfat?
 
> after several hours of frustration, I had to boot up a Win2K just to 
> retreive the images.  Any help greatly appreciated.

I've never had any luck with gphoto or gkam.  Of course, I only mucked
around with them for a few minutes because I found it much easier to just
copy the photos from my camera to my hard drive and then edit them with the
Gimp.  

~Jeff