usb digital camera problems

[Frank McCormick]

On 7/2/05, Ante Karamatić <ivoks at grad.hr> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 19:22 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> 
> > /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda,
> 
> Everything is ok except this line. This one is very bad. This shouldn't
> happen. Either your flash card is broken (that happens if you just
> unplug camera without safely removing/unmounting it in any operating
> system) or your USB is boken. I would put my money on flash card in
> camera.
> 
> By the way, there are two great apps for importing photos. One should
> start if mounting went ok (wich didn't in your case). This one is called
> gthumb (File -> Import photos) and it's quite nice program. There is
> also gtkam (Camera -> Rescan/Add camera). Both work great with my two
> cameras. Olympus is mounted via usb storage (this way you can work with
> images as with any file; this is how your camera works). Canon works
> only with gphoto2 (witch both gtkam and gthumb can use) and it doesn't
> mount drive.
> 


    OK I'll get the flashcard checked out but the camera was being
used by my wife before and she didn't have any problems. It may be my
USB is broken but I don't understand how that would come about.

   I have tried both gtkam and gthumb (had to compile gtkam) but
neither works..the problem seems to be a lack of support for the
Minolta dimage e201...they have other cameras on the list but not
mine. Strange because they say 600 are supported and mine is a USB
mass storage device like many others on the list.

   By the way is it normal for my system not to have a device for
sda1? I can mount the camera by mounting dev/sda but not sda1- it
reports no such device.

   This is turning out to be a horror story but thanks for your suggestions.




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---Frank
---Montreal