problem mounting camera suse 9.3
 

After upgrading from SUsE 9.0 to 9.3, my digital camera (Canon PowerShot A60)
no longer gets mounted properly. A browser window (Konqueror) pops up but upon
clicking it says "cannot read file /.". On the same USB port, my memory stick works
just fine.
The /var/log/messages just says
"new full speed usb device using ohci_hcd and address 2"
but then nothing happens any more.

Anyone got a suggestion how to mount my camera?
Best would be just as a file system, not within some program ...

Hi,

Does dmesg tell you which /dev/sd* it is? If so then you could mount it by suing to root then using the mount command:

(the device name is just an example, yours WILL vary)

su
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -o rw

then you can:
cd /mnt
and do: ls -l

If you see your files, you can then navigate to /mnt in konqueror

Somehow it looks like it does not get mounted at all.
Plugging in the camera just adds one line to dmesg:

usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2

and according to /var/log/messages, this comes from the linux kernel.
When I do this again, the address number goes from 2 to 3 to 4 ...
Turning the camera off leads to

usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2

(or 3 or 4 ...)

Plugging a memory stick into the same usb port gives many more
messages, such as what kind of stick it is:

usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Drive Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 128640 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 128640 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

So somehow this usb-storage module doesn't get going with the camera.

Any idea what's going on?

You too huh...

Just installed SUSE 9.3 and my PointChips USB drive shows the same info in dmesg. I've fixed it previously with Fedora Core 2 by adding the name of the device to a file which identifies devices and assigns them a type. It's under /etc/hotplug/ from memory but am still figuring it out.

If anyone can remember or knows the process let me know.

Ciao
--
Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

I'm having the same problem with my USB memory stick (SanDisk 1.0 gig) that you
are having with your camera. According to the contents of /sys/bus/usb/devices
the system is recognizing the stick, but not mounting it. Nothing comes up in
the "Computer" box. Trying to manually mount it as sda or sda1 results in a
"sda is not a valid block device" message. The appropriate scsi modules are
loaded that should make the sda device look like a valid block device.

See my post under SuSE 9.3 forum "Memory stick no workee"

-Goofbaw, Everett Washington