On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:04:04 -0700
Mark Jarvis <
mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu> 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
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