Connect Samsung Continuum to Macbook Pro

settings, applications, usb settings, and change it to ask when connected.

Also, enable usb debugging while you're at it.

>>settings, applications, usb settings,
In Setting -> Applications, available selections are:
Unknown Sources
Manage applications
Running services
Development

There is Applications -> USB Settings, under which the choices are:
Media Player
Mass storage
Ask on Connection

I guess that's what you're talking about. I've been instructed to choose Mass storage, but will try Ask on Connection.

>>enable usb debugging while you're at it.
As originally posted, already done (under Setting -> Applications -> Development)

Since the mac doesn't recognize the phone, I don't understand how performing these commands from the mac terminal will give information about the phone, but here it is:

15-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ df -h
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2   232Gi  123Gi  110Gi    53%    /
devfs          109Ki  109Ki    0Bi   100%    /dev
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /home

15-MacBook-Pro:~ apple$ fdisk -l
fdisk: illegal option -- l
usage: fdisk [-ieu] [-f mbrboot] [-c cyl -h head -s sect] [-S size] [-r] [-a style] disk
      -i: initialize disk with new MBR
      -u: update MBR code, preserve partition table
      -e: edit MBRs on disk interactively
      -f: specify non-standard MBR template
      -chs: specify disk geometry
      -S: specify disk size
      -r: read partition specs from stdin (implies -i)
      -a: auto-partition with the given style
      -d: dump partition table
      -y: don't ask any questions
      -t: test if disk is partitioned
`disk' is of the form /dev/rdisk0.
auto-partition styles:
  boothfs     8Mb boot plus HFS+ root partition (default)
  bootufs     8Mb boot plus UFS root partition
  hfs         Entire disk as one HFS+ partition
  ufs         Entire disk as one UFS partition
  dos         Entire disk as one DOS partition
  raid        Entire disk as one 0xAC partition


That's fdisk -l where the "-l" is a lower case L, correct?

15-MacBook-Pro:~ man fdisk


NAME
     fdisk -- DOS partition maintenance program

SYNOPSIS
     fdisk [-ieu] [-f mbrname] [-c cylinders] [-h heads] [-s sectors]
           [-S size] [-b size] device

DESCRIPTION
     In order for the BIOS to boot the kernel, certain conventions must be
     adhered to.  Sector 0 of a bootable hard disk must contain boot code, an
     MBR partition table, and a magic number (0xAA55).  These MBR partitions
     (also known as BIOS partitions) can be used to break the disk up into
     several pieces.

     The BIOS loads sector 0 of the boot disk into memory, verifies the magic
     number, and begins executing the code at the first byte.  The normal DOS
     MBR boot code searches the MBR partition table for an ``active'' parti-
     tion (indicated by a `*' in the first column), and if one is found, the
     boot block from that partition is loaded and executed in place of the
     original (MBR) boot block.

take a look at this link there may be some useful info for you::

http://androidcommunity.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-37817.html

roylong:
Reading that link. I've learned there are 2 types of USB cables (charge and/or data). The cable I am using is definitely charging, but I don't know how to tell if it is data.

The USB cable is good. I've connected the phone to an Win XP machine (after downloading drivers from Samsung).

do you know how your memory card is formatted?  if it's not FAT or NTFS it may be formatted ext (linux filesystem); if it is then you may be able to mount using extFS from Paragon Software.  they offer a ten day time limited demo for download here...
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/extfs-mac/download.html

if this does work; I would suggest trying to copy you stuff off and then reformat the card as FAT format.

How do I determine the memory card format?

On the phone, under SD card & phone storage, there is;
External SD Card
    Total Space: 7.39 gb
    Available Space: 7.32 gb
    Unmount SD card
    Format SD card (this is greyed out, cannot select)

Internal phone Storage
    Available Space: 1.25 gb

Nothing about specifying format of card

I have everything copied to my PC. I guess, referring to my original post, I could select "Initialize" and see what happens.

If you initialise make sure you have any data on there backed up.

The manual is here:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SCH-I400ZKAVZW

On page 101, it gives instructions for formatting the SD card. I tried it, it doesn't give any choices of which file system format to use.