*snip* Thank you, Craig and Mario V.
I should have thought about google, true <sigh>. Since I don't use any other mass storage devices, I guess I'll use the workaround you mentionned. I've thought of another solution this morning, totally unsatisfactory: I'm running a Win2K machine in a VMWare host, and it is able to talk to my cam. This is only a quick fix until I go with the workaround. Thanks again folks ! Jeff > > You might get faster answers to questions like these if you search Google > first. As it happens, "Olympus D520Z USB Linux" turns up the following > page as the very first result: > > http://software.jodda.de/camediac220.html > > which explains that the D520Z, like many other Olympus cameras, has a > defective USB implementation that the Linux USB code doesn't handle > well. There is a workaround, but it involves making your computer > incompatible with other USB storage devices. > > My daughter has another model of Olympus digital camera that neither > Windows nor Linux can reliably talk to because of this same problem. Our > solution was to buy a SmartMedia card reader that works with Linux, and > use that rather than plugging the camera directly into the computer. The > SanDisk SDDR-75 is an inexpensive reader for both SmartMedia and > CompactFlash cards that works very nicely for us. The only little trick > it requires is that you have to make sure your Linux kernel was compiled > with support for multiple-LUN SCSI devices (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN), > since the SmartMedia slot appears as a second LUN. > > Craig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
