usb digital camera problems

[Corey Bettenhausen]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

Some of Minolta cameras are supported by Gphoto2:
 >gphoto2 --list-cameras|grep Minolta
         "Konica-Minolta DiMAGE A2 (PTP mode)"
         "Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z3 (PictBridge mode)"
         "Minolta Dimage V"

What happens if you plug in your camera and run "ghoto2 --auto-detect"?
Also, sometimes even if your specific camera isn't listed, using the 
driver for another camera in that family will work.  See man gphoto2 for 
details.
-Corey