USB memory stick issues...Arrgghhh!
 

Hi all,

I'm running Debian testing. I have a Sony digital camera with a Sony memory stick PRO. I also have a PNY and SanDisk memory card reader.

I used to have no problems mounting the card to get my pics off it, but a month or so ago I started running into issues. I was suspecting udev or usbmount so I would reinstall these packages and it would sometimes help.

However, this has stopped working.

I was running kernel 2.6.7 so I decided to upgrade to 2.6.12.4 and the build seemed to go OK.

uname -a

Linux mordor 2.6.12.4 #4 SMP Mon Sep 19 23:19:16 EDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux


But I'm having worse luck now. This is what I used to have in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda1 /memorystick vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

But now /dev/sda1 is a link which is pointing back to /dev/sda1!!!

dmesg is dumping things like

.....
usb-storage: Command READ_CAPACITY (10 bytes)
usb-storage: 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
usb-storage: Bulk Command S 0x43425355 T 0x5c L 8 F 128 Trg 0 LUN 0 CL 10
usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 31 bytes
usb-storage: Status code -71; transferred 0/31
usb-storage: -- unknown error
usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=4
usb-storage: -- transport indicates error, resetting
usb-storage: usb_stor_Bulk_reset called
usb-storage: usb_stor_control_msg: rq=ff rqtype=21 value=0000 index=00 len=0
usb-storage: Soft reset: clearing bulk-in endpoint halt
usb-storage: usb_stor_control_msg: rq=01 rqtype=02 value=0000 index=81 len=0
usb-storage: usb_stor_clear_halt: result = 0
usb-storage: Soft reset: clearing bulk-out endpoint halt
usb-storage: usb_stor_control_msg: rq=01 rqtype=02 value=0000 index=02 len=0
usb-storage: usb_stor_clear_halt: result = 0
usb-storage: Soft reset done
usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x70000
usb-storage: *** thread sleeping.
usb-storage: queuecommand called
usb-storage: *** thread awakened.
usb-storage: Command READ_CAPACITY (10 bytes)
usb-storage: 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
usb-storage: Bulk Command S 0x43425355 T 0x5d L 8 F 128 Trg 0 LUN 0 CL 10
usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: xfer 31 bytes



I'm not sure what's going on at this point. Anyone have any suggestions?