From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: November 28, 2005 9:36:39 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: DMK camera fixes itself - is there some kind of timeout?

I haven't had Steve's result, but I have unplugged the camera before stopping the video 

before (stupid mistake as I was shutting the scope down for the night, but intending to 

process videos further).  I was able to start the camera again by stopping the video and 

then restarting it after reconnecting the camera in that instance, if I remember correctly.

-Tim.

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "wesley_ae" <awesley@a...> wrote:

Perhaps I'm being a bit too dramatic on the negative side of what can  

happen, but having had hard drive becomes corrupted or destroyed over  

the past 20 years of PC development work makes me a bit paranoid,  

especially when it can be prevented.

Milton J. Aupperle

Milton, don't get me wrong - I agree completely that unplugging a hard

drive while it's busy copying files is a bad thing to do.

However, Steve was asking about unplugging/replugging a DCAM video

camera, wasn't he? That's surely not the same thing at all, and it

seems that he is quite correct in wondering why the software doesn't

redetect and reinitialise the camera when it's plugged back in.

Is this something you might consider looking at in a future release of

Astro_IIDC? Even if the camera was just reinitialised to its default

settings then at least the system would be back in a usable state.

regards, Anthony