Reading pictures from HP R707 digital camers

[Steve_160]

If I do a "mount -t vfat /dev/sda sda" mount hangs forever. I tried it on another computer and it does the same there.

BTW, If I try to mount the card reader with "-t vfat" or default, I get "Bogus number of reserved sectors."

[Alex Lavrov.]

Btw, does it work on windows? Does it work anyware? Maybe the problem is in the camera ...

[Steve_160]

It works in Windows as a disk drive, though I often have to restart Windows before it will recognize it. But then, that's Windows.

I didn't want to mess with Internet Explorer to use the other features.

[NiCK_76]

Hi Steve,

Did you saw sda when you perform command "fdisk -l"? Can you post "fdisk -l" to here?

NiCK

[Stuart Fuller_2]

I have a similar camera (R607).

Before I got the SD card, I was able to connect the camera to my Mandrake Linux system and mount the camera's filesystem to download pictures.

After installing the SD card, and taking some more pictures, I can no longer mount the camera's filesystem. It returns an I/O error as the original poster indicates. Further, the camera now reports that the file system on the SD card is corrupted, and offers to reformat it. Cycling the power on the camera clears it up, however.

The camera works just fine with Winders.

[Alex Lavrov.]

I think the problem is in camera. If it doesn't work good enough on Windows too, it's not OS issue.

Just to be sure, I would try to mount this camera on some other computer (windows or linux) and to mount another USB device on linux, just to see that it can handle USB.

[Steve_160]

Sorry it's taking me awhile to check fdisk. My daughter wanted her camera back for awhile. I should be able to play with it more tonight. ;-)

[Steve_160]

Okay, here's what "fdisk -l" says:
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>fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 10.2 GB, 10248370176 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 1245 9896040 8e Linux LVM
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Although it says it was assigned "SDA," I note that SDA doesn't show up here.

The USB ports on this machine are okay. They work with a CDR, one of those pocket memory sticks (which also mounts as SDA), and my PDA.

I tried the camera on another Linux machine with the same results. I haven't tried the camera on another Windows machine because I don't have another one--unless one turns up in the junk pile.

[NiCK_76]

Hi steve,

Try to remove usb modules and reprobe it.

NiCK

[Steve_160]

The only thing I came up with using "lsmod | grep -i usb" was:

usb_storage 61321 0
scsi_mod 118417 4 usb_storage,ide_scsi,libata,sd_mod

I tried removing usb_storage and probing it again, but it didn't help. I have the feeling I should be looking for some other module, though.