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rijones1 : 11/03/03 10:21 PM : Incident created -   I have a digital camera Goodmans GDC1116STN. It works using Windows XP, and the drivers they supplied, and I am trying to get it to work on my Mandrake box. When plugging it into the usb, I get the following output in the /var/log/messages file: Mar 11 21:24:37 tiger kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2 Mar 11 21:24:37 tiger kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x55f/0xc431) is not claimed by any active driver. Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 55f/c431/100 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: Vendor: USB Model: Device Rev: 1.00 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 32768 512-byte hdwr sectors (17 MB) Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1911 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Mar 11 21:24:41 tiger kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 32768 512-byte hdwr sectors (17 MB) Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 32768 512-byte hdwr sectors (17 MB) Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 32768 512-byte hdwr sectors (17 MB) Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:42 tiger kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:43 tiger kernel: SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST. Mar 11 21:24:43 tiger kernel: SCSI device sda: 32768 512-byte hdwr sectors (17 MB) Mar 11 21:24:43 tiger kernel: sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled Mar 11 21:24:43 tiger kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:24:43 tiger kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Mar 11 21:25:37 tiger kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 I expected it to produce devices sda0,sda1... in /dev/but there is only ever sda. I have added the following line to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda /mnt/camera vfat noauto,ro,user 0 0 and when I try to mount it I get the following error: [root@tiger etc]# mount /dev/sda mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems I have tried changing the fstype to msdos and iso9660, but get the same error message. Can anyone suggest what might be missing? I cannot find a website with any technical information or Linux drivers for the camera, but believe that if it is a scsi emulation, it should be mountable under Linux. Thanks in advance for any suggestions that you might have.
rodeur : 12/03/03 02:02 PM : Reply received -   suggest you type "auto" for fstype in your /etc/fstab and not vfat. What's the next display ?
rijones1 : 14/03/03 10:48 PM : More info provided -   [root@tiger camera]# mount /mnt/camera /dev/sda: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type So unfortunately that doesn't sort it. Thanks for the suggestion though.
rodeur : 15/03/03 01:56 PM : Reply received -   perhaps it'll helps, you have more infos in Howtos : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kodak-Digitalcam-HOWTO/index.html http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/USB-Digital-Camera-HOWTO/index.html hope it gives you solutions or new ideas
rijones1 : 19/03/03 11:05 AM : More info provided -   I have visited these websites, but neither can shed any light on why I am getting the error messages in the log as described above. They do confirm that the usb settings are correct though. Thansk again for your help.
rijones1 : 02/09/03 10:41 AM : Incident closed -   There isn't a driver for this - having contacted the company who made it, they have a non-open driver that doesn't use the usb drive standards, so requires a specific driver. They don't support linux, so I've given up as I don't have the skills (or their API) to write one myself.

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