I've not looked through all the files (octet-stream means pine will only save them, not let me view them) but you should mount the partition, not the device. Generally this is sda1 (the partition list should be in your kernel logs).
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Richard Charlewood wrote: > Hi, > > I hope you can help me. I have been struggling to read the memory > stick of my wife's Sony handycam DCR TRV38 to copy jpeg files (not > video) off it. The driver that is supposed to work is the usb-storage > driver with ID 0x054c:0x002e. > > I am running RedHat 7.0 on an old Pentium-1 with various RedHat 7.3 > patches and the latest 2.4 kernel (2.4.20-28.7) installed as an rpm > (I've never tried installing a kernel manually yet). Everything seems > to be working until I try to mount the /dev/sda and then I get a > screenful of errors. I've attached the following text files: > > 1. dmesg output > 2. /proc/bus/usb/devices > 3. /proc/scsi/scsi > 4. /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 > 5. the error message I get when I mount /dev/sda - the first part was > lost as it scrolled off the screen :( > > >From looking at the web this should be a very straight forward job to > read the memory stick through the camera. I was able to mount it once > and even copy a single file across before the error kicked in and I > have had progressively less success since then. I even reformatted the > memory stick (even though Windows XP was able to read the memory stick > without a problem, admittedly not through the camera. > > Is this a problem that some file needs updating that is not part of > the kernel? > > Your help will be extremely gratefully received! > Richard > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
