usb digital camera problems

[Frank McCormick]

Hi all
   Spent the afternoon trying to download pictures from my Minolta
dimage e201 digital camera.....without success.
The message log says  USB has recognized the
camera...but that's all.  It apparently recognizes the camera (USB mass
storage type) as a scsi disk for pete's sake. 

here's what in the message log:


Jul  1 18:34:10 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 3
Jul  1 18:34:10 localhost kernel: scsi1 :SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Jul  1 18:34:11 localhost usb.agent[6894]:      usb-storage: already loaded 
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel:   Vendor: MINOLTA   Model: DiMAGE
E201       Rev: 1.00
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 00
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 15536 512-byte hdwr
sectors (8 MB)
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off 
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: SCSI error: host 1 id 0 lun 0 return
code = 8000002
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: ^ISense class 7, sense error 0,
extended sense 0
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 15536 512-byte hdwr
sectors (8 MB)
Jul  1 18:34:15 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off 
Jul  1 18:34:16 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:
unknown partition table
Jul  1 18:34:16 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jul  1 18:34:16 localhost
scsi.agent[6941]:      sd_mod: loaded sucessfully
Jul  1 18:34:31 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 15536 512-byte hdwr
sectors (8 MB)
Jul  1 18:34:31 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jul  1 18:34:31 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 15536 512-byte hdwr
sectors (8 MB)
Jul  1 18:34:31 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off 
Jul  1 18:34:31 localhost kernel: 
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda,

and on and on an on.

Then I mounted /dev/sda...and manually copied files from the camera to
my home directory. Trouble is each time I went back to the mounted
directory it was filled with garbage files in addition to the
pix...and a third of the pics were corrupted when they were copied.
This camera worked fine under windoze.

It also seems Linux doesn't have any decent software to handle digital
cameras, at least none in the Ubuntu archives.
My wife on the other hand set up her Fuji Finepix on her windoze 98
machine this afternoon in 10 minutes including installing the finepix
cd rom. She has since downloaded 10 or 15 pics onto her machine and is
happy as a ....

Can anyone help before HER opinion of Linux falls even further ?

-- 
Cheers

Frank


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---Frank
---Montreal