I would like to access images stored on an Olympus D400Z digital camera. It uses 4/8/16 Mb SmartMedia Cards (in its format) and has a serial cable interface. It also has a Flashpath floppy disk adapter for the SmartMedia Cards. This allows you to stick the SmartMedia card in the adapter which is then inserted into your floppy drive. I can read from the drive using "dd if=/dev/fd0" but I obviously don't get the full 8 Mb off the card.
The software shipped with the camera supports "both kinds of computers"*, Windows _and_ Macs. I would like to be able to support it on a Debian GNU/Linux system. Any suggestions of where to start looking? The SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) site did not include any of the Olympus cameras in its list of supported hardware nor does it say anything about the Flashpath. * My friend Bill says that the idea of supporting "both kinds of computers" always reminds him of the movie "The Blues Brothers" where Dan Ackroyd asks a bar owner what kind of music these folks like to hear. The owner replies, "Round here folks listen to _both_ kinds of music; country _and_ western".
