Hi all,

This may tick Ed off as it is nothing nice towards him, but still...

Since two days USB acts funny.

I have a Belkin SD card reader that used to behave when I plugged it
into a USB port. It would generate a /mnt/<somedir> and that is it.

Now, even after a reboot, I get all kinds of weird messages.

Dmesg shows nothing wrong:

usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor:           Model:                   Rev:     
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

But when I try to mount the device, I am told that there either is no
medium, or that the medium does not contain a valid FAT filesystem.
Sometimes I also get the message that device /dev/sda1 does not exist.
Which is true, but I see that /dev/sda is there. Softlinking that to
sda1 does not help, though.

The SD card (Sandisk, 128Mb) is from my camera, and that worked well
before. I formatted the card with the camera, to no avail. Other cards
give me the same harassment.

So far I have not been able to get Gphoto to recognise the camera (Canon
Powershot A620), although I think that should be possible.

On win..urgh..things it just works, withe supplied Canon software. But I
don't want to start the old PC with that stuff each time I have pictures
to download to the linux machine.

The PC is a Dell, 1.8Ghz pentium, 512Mb Ram and USB2-connections. And
yes, I tried several ports too.

Any clues, hints, pointers, ideas or solutions?

Thanks!
Paul
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