On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:37:58PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory > stick. Here's the setup... > > CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick > > The HUB is from Radio Shack. The Dazzle is a device used to > interface the memory stick with USB. The memory stick is > a Sandisk 128 MB memory stick for a camera. Using her laptop > and XP, with the same Dazzle and memory stick, it mounts > just fine. With her desktop and Debian, it fails to mount. > > Also connected to the hub are a WD USB hard disc, and an HP printer, > both of which work fine with Debian. > > Currently, she mounts using XP on the laptop, then e-mails the photos > to herself over a dial-up, and then reads the mail back into Debian > using an ADSL connection. Needless to say, this is not the desirable > solution. > > When we try to mount that memory card, mount responds that it is > unable to ascertain the file system type. It appears that fdisk > is unable to read anything from it at all. OTOH, lsusb shows the > Dazzle device. I have outputs from lsusb, fdisk, and dmesg, but they > are somewhat lengthy. > > Any who are willing to help understand what to do to get this > card to mount, I'll ship them by e-mail, or if consensus agrees > to it, I'll post them here. They are a few kilobytes altogether. send them to me directly if you want, but first: what is the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog when started before plugging the device in until after its plugged and settled. If this a regular flash memory stick/card? For example, my camera uses bog-standard compact flash cards (about 1.25 inches square by 1/8 in thick) and they plug into a standard card reader and mount as /dev/sda1 as a vfat device. Is that what we're trying to do? or is it some proprietary format device that doesn't plug into a standard cardreader? A
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