[wellylug] USB and digital cameras

[Lindsay Hunter]

When I bought the Fuji camera, I brought a card reader, Smart Media 
only.  Worked well under Win98 with its own software, much faster than 
the camera, and could handle the spare cards I used, up to 128 mB.  Then 
I noted that it was not working.  I fiddled with it, reinstalled 
everything, but no avail.  The camera still worked fine and transferred 
when asked.

Try the same card reader on Red Hat 9 and get

"Jun  4 20:56:43 gandalf kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-2, 
assigned address 11
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for 
USB product 4ce/2/5
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: SCSI device sda: 128001 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (66 MB)
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel:  sda: sda1
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a 
disc in the drive.
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 
0, driver = 08
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current 
sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel: sdb : block size assumed to be 512 
bytes, disk size 1GB.
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel:  sdb: I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf kernel:  unable to read partition table
Jun  4 20:56:47 gandalf devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted "

This is telling me that the reader is no longer working?  It is 
recognising the device for what it is, make and model, card capacity but 
cannot read?  The Smart Media themselves are OK and work in the camera. 
 You don't get this sort of diagnostic in Windoze.

Lindsay


Ewen McNeill wrote:

>In message <3EDB0253.9050105 at paradise.net.nz>, Lindsay Hunter writes:
>  
>
>>>[Digital camera]
>>>      
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>>Yes.  On the button here with the mount command.  I plan to be more 
>>famliar with it.  It automounts as I have it.  
>>    
>>
>
>Excellent.  It sounds like you're pretty much sorted from the
>getting-photos-off-the-camera point of view.
>
>  
>
>>Any preferences for a library/viewer app?
>>    
>>
>
>I use xv for quickly examining pictures (eg, to discard the ones that just
>didn't work at all for whatever reason) simply because it automatically
>scales-to-fit-screen and has a good slideshow option, and then a bunch of
>home-written perl scripts (which use Image::Magick) to do the resizing,
>index building, etc and put them up on my website.
>
>There seem to be plenty of "photo album" applications out there, but I
>suspect many of them are in the "I started writing this and got
>distracted" category.  And most of them are too "one program does all,
>take it or leave it" for my tastes.
>
>Ewen
>
>  
>

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