Odd problem with Digitrex camera

[kortsen]

I have a Digitrex DSC-3500Z digital camera. It has 16mb of internal ram and an SD slot with a 128mb card in it. With this camera, the memory options are either-or; going into "settings" on the camera I can select internal or external memory. When I connect it with 'Internal' selected (or the SD card removed) everything is fine. A USB storage device icon appears on the desktop and I can access and transfer files with Dolphin. For your reference here is lsusb and dmesg

lsusb looks like this

lars@toshiba:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0461:0828 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

and dmesg looks like this

[ 1136.988000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12
[ 1152.100000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 1167.316000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 1167.532000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 13
[ 1182.644000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 1197.860000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 1198.076000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 14
[ 1208.484000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 14, error -110
[ 1208.596000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 15
[ 1219.004000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 15, error -110
[ 2174.896000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 16
[ 2175.072000] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2175.072000] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 2175.076000] usb-storage: device found at 16
[ 2175.076000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 2180.076000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 2180.080000] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Digital Camera 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 2180.280000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 32000 512-byte hardware sectors (16 MB)
[ 2180.284000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2180.284000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00
[ 2180.284000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2180.296000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 32000 512-byte hardware sectors (16 MB)
[ 2180.300000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2180.300000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00
[ 2180.300000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2180.300000] sdb: sdb1
[ 2180.312000] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 2180.312000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

But when I try to use the external memory 'nothing' happens. No desktop icon and no USB mass storage device.

lsusb takes about 3 or 4 minutes to run and finally shows me this

lars@toshiba:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

and dmesg looks like this

[ 362.996000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 363.232000] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 363.788000] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 363.924000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 363.924000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
[ 364.016000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 364.016000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 364.020000] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 364.020000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 364.020000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 364.020000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 369.020000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 369.024000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Digital Camera 1.00 PQ
: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 369.036000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 245504 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
[ 369.040000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 369.040000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00
[ 369.040000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 369.052000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 245504 512-byte hardware sectors (126 MB)
[ 369.056000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 369.056000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00
[ 369.056000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 369.056000] sdb: sdb1
[ 369.068000] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 369.068000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 399.464000] usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 414.576000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 429.792000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 430.008000] usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 445.120000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 460.336000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 460.552000] usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 470.960000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 3, error -110
[ 471.072000] usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 481.480000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 3, error -110
[ 481.480000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
[ 481.480000] scsi 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recov
ery
[ 481.488000] scsi 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_NO_CONNECT driverbyte=DR
IVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
[ 481.488000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 245496
[ 481.488000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30680
[ 481.520000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.520000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30686
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 30687
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.524000] scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
[ 481.592000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 496.704000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 511.920000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 512.136000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 527.248000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 542.464000] usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 542.680000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
[ 553.088000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 6, error -110
[ 553.200000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
[ 563.608000] usb 1-1: device not accepting address 7, error -110

[dibl]

Re: Odd problem with Digitrex camera

My digicam, which uses SD cards, had some issues being recognized in Dapper, and I went out and bought a cheapo SD card reader on a USB cable -- I think it cost $19.95 or so. For some reason, the SD card in that reader is easily picked up as a "media" device, and I just copy the pix into a folder in my home directory. Just a thought ...

[kortsen]

Re: Odd problem with Digitrex camera

I have a work-around. My RCA Lyra MP3 player has an SD slot. It works just fine and Kubuntu mounts internal and external memory with no problem. I can use it as an SD reader. But that seems kludgy to me. The Lyra stays in the car most of the time; it is never handy to use with the camera.