[ale] USB Cam (LONG)

[Jeff Hubbs]

Hello, all, and Merry Christmas!

A few days ago I got a Vivitar 3555T USB digital still camera as a
gift.  For jollies, when I got it home, I hooked it up to my Mandrake
9,0 box to see what it would do.

Here's dmesg from the encounter, during which I tried to mount the
device using several -t options:

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x461/0x822) is not claimed by any active
driver.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Digital   Model: Image Device      Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
<scissors of brevity>
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1460
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
<******this repeats several times, notes the scissors of brevity******>
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1684
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 130
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 461
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 08:00
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
 /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

Here is the output of cat /proc/filesystems:

nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   shm
nodev   pipefs
        ext2
nodev   ramfs
nodev   devfs
nodev   devpts
        ext3
nodev   usbdevfs
nodev   usbfs
nodev   supermount
        udf
        iso9660
nodev   smbfs
        vfat
        msdos

The cam can be "browsed" from WinME once the accompanying CD's drivers
and software are installed.

Is this failing because it's got some weird filesystem inside it?  Would
using a SmartCard reader get me around this problem or is this pretty
much a "Wincamera?"  Google helped me not.  

- Jeff

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