> > | USB would be preferable to compact flash (should be
> > | easier to use for my wife - won't need to remember
> > | to umount/"stop"/whatever any compact flash devices,
> > | for example).
>> This isn't a problem. My Flash-based camera also has USB. Easy-peasy.
IIRC, you've got a Canon A20. Are you using gPhoto or
going through the usb-storage module?
From playing around with Compact Flash on RH7.2, things
get a bit confused if you pop the card out before stopping
the IDE device. Does the kernel gracefully handle the
USB-SCSI devices going away unexpectedly?
Later,
Kenn
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