On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:04:04 -0700 Mark Jarvis wrote: > > I have a digital camera with a USB connection. In XP, I access the > picture files in it exactly the same as I do files on my USB flash > drives. In Linux I can access the USB drives just fine, but when I try > to mount the camera, I get "device sdd1 is not a valid block device". > > In WBEL (White Box Enterprise Linux) the applicable fstab entries are: > > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbhd auto noauto,rw,umask=0,users 0 0 > /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb_sd auto noauto,rw,umask=0,users 0 0 > /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb_camera auto noauto,rw,umask=0,users 0 0 > > They start with sdb1 because sda1 is a SCSI disk. > > I also booted into Mepis & Knoppix with similar results--both saw the > two flash drives but not the camera. A student at school had a similar > problem with his Memorex flash drive. No linux system would recognize > it--he always gets the same "not a valid block device" message, even > from systems that recognize other flash drives. > > Someone suggested re-formatting--whether from some knowledge or from > "what the h___, let's try SOMETHING", I don't know. > > Does anybody have any ideas a) why Linux doesn't see some USB devices > properly and b) what the heck to do about it? Is there some reason to > expect re-formatting to help? > > -mj- Mark, What's the output of dmesg? That may tell you that the camera needs to be mounted as a different device. The 2.4 kernel doesn't support persistant device names so they can change. Dennis --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss