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Old 08-10-2003, 08:40 PM   #1
rstebbins
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USB - /dev/sda1 is not a block device


I have been working on this for a while.

Distro - Mandrake 9.1
kernel - 2.4.21-0.13mdk
camera - Kodak DX4330

I just followed the instructions in the Digital Camera HOWTO. When I run the script to move the pictures from the cameras smart card to the computer I get the following:

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a block device
Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci): [ OK ]
mv: cannot stat `/mnt/camera/dcim/100msdcf/*.jpg': No such file or directory
umount: /mnt/camera: not mounted

Heres some info:

From lsmod:
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage usb-uhci]


From modprobe usb-storage:
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1020, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2

and

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-1 address 2

and

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x555) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:07.2-1 address 3


From fstab:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0


I confess that I don't know what I am doing.
Why is sda1 not in the fstab file? Do I need to manually put it in?

Sorry for the long post but I figured too much info up front is better than too little.

Any suggestions would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Randy
 
Old 08-11-2003, 08:40 AM   #2
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try /dev/sdb1. else See if gphoto or kphoto can find it. New program is GTKam (Gphoto2).
 
Old 08-11-2003, 12:24 PM   #3
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I tried GTKam. It recognized the camera correctly but didn't read from the card. I got nowhere with gphoto.
 
Old 08-13-2003, 06:49 PM   #4
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I added

/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,users,umask=0 0 0

to /etc/fstab.

I rebooted with the camera attached to the USB port. I started GTKam and I get the following message:
A window comes up titled "Could not claim USB device" the message within the window reads "Could not list folders in "/" ".

Any ideas what that's about?

Since adding the new line to fstab the following line has appeared when I run modprobe usb-storage:

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x555) is not claimed by any active driver.

I've no idea what it means. I'm really fumbling with this.

Since adding the new line to fstab an icon has appeared on the KDE desktop. Its title is "Hard Disc (sda1) (not mounted). When I right click and select mount I just get an error message saying "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a block device"

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Randy
 
Old 08-14-2003, 05:16 AM   #5
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I haven't try it but try /sbin/modprobe sd_mod before inserting the USB device. Also try /sbin/modprobe scsi_mod.
 
  


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