Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 16:18:59 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> I think the first step should be to figure why the files get corrupted
>>> so often. If we manage to fix that then you can check if gthumb causes
>>> any additional problems.
>> I am beginning to suspect the Compact Flash card this camera uses may
>> be corrupted somehow. I have reformatted it, took some new pics,
/snip/
>
> You can open a terminal window and start monitoring your syslog with:
>
> tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog | sed 's/^.*localhost //'
>
> Then you can access a few pictures on the camera and check if you see
> error messages in the terminal window. (CTRL + C stops the monitoring.)
>
>>> What you posted in your first message suggests to me the camera is
>>> recognized correctly and that udev creates the device node and loads
>>> usb-storage. So far so good, but you also seem to have some sort of
>>> auto-mounting mechanism active (udev creates /dev/sda*, mounting leads
>>> to /media/sda*). How is that done? Can you post the output of the
>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
>> /dev/hda3 on /media/dapper type ext3 (rw)
>> /dev/sda on /media/sda type vfat (rw)
>
> Let's have a quick look at the partition table. Please post the output
> of
>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> (You need to be root or a member of group "disk" to run this command.)
Here is is....doesn't look right to me !!
Disk /dev/sda: 7 MB, 7954432 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 971 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
frank@debian:~$
I am going to try the monitoring syslog a little later - got a few
other things to do :)
Thanks and
Cheers
Frank
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