2003-12-13, 04:50 PM
Apart from the floppy disk drive, I have only tried one other USB device: an Aiptek Pencam Trio Digital Camera.
Upon hot-plugging the camera, it was automatically detected and the stv680 module was loaded. Unfortunately, this is not useful for any of the applications that may wish to access the camera (gtkam and pencam2, for example). I received the error message "Unable to claim USB device". The solution is quite simple: remove the module that was loaded (rmmod stv680) and everything will work just fine after that...
I do not know if a similar problem occurs with other digital cameras (e.g. Kodak) but will check.
How to Mount a Camera Compact Flash Card
An alternative method of transferring pictures from your camera is to remove the flash memory card from your camera, and mount it in a PCMCIA flash card adapter. Plug in the PCMCIA card, and check what happened (using dmesg). My adapter generates the following messages:
hde: SanDisk SDCFB-48, CFA DISK drive
ide2 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hde: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hde: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hde: 93952 sectors (48 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=734/4/32
hde: hde1
ide_cs: hde: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
Then, create a directory to mount it in:
# cd /mnt
# mkdir flashdisk
The following command should then mount the flash memory card in read-only mode:
mount -t auto -s -r /dev/hde1 /mnt/flashdisk