Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 08:52:53 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:52:25 -0400
Frank McCormick wrote:

Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ?

Did you upgrade to it, or was it a fresh install?
In case of you upgraded, an update-usbids may help.
I upgraded Etch . Doing the update **seems** to have helped
a bit - /sda is now created in /media...but gthumb and other
apps give me ioerrors. I can go into /sda and find the pictures
manually but half the time they are half corrupted, ie half the picture
is there. All in all strange.

I think the first step should be to figure why the files get corrupted
so often. If we manage to fix that then you can check if gthumb causes
any additional problems.

I am beginning to suspect the Compact Flash card this camera uses may
be corrupted somehow. I have reformatted it, took some new pics,
connected the camera which was recognized, but I had to mount it
manually. It used to mount automatically because I was running Ivman,
but I removed that thinking it may have been causing problems. When I
mount manually I can go in an copy pics, BUT half the time the copy
doesn';t work or the pic is corrupt. In addition, the pics are bad
quality with what looks like smoke in various parts. Anyway to make a
long story short I am going to try replacing the card with a new one and
then we'll see whether it's Linux, the card or the camera.

What you posted in your first message suggests to me the camera is
recognized correctly and that udev creates the device node and loads
usb-storage. So far so good, but you also seem to have some sort of
auto-mounting mechanism active (udev creates /dev/sda*, mounting leads
to /media/sda*). How is that done? Can you post the output of the
"mount" command (without any arguments) after the entry in /media has
appeared?

Here it is after a manual mount:

/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda3 on /media/dapper type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda on /media/sda type vfat (rw)
frank@debian:~$


Cheers

Frank
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