usb probs

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

I thought, I hoped, I prayed, that someday I'd be able to plug in my 
camera, mount it, and read it more than once without having to 
reboot.

Sadly such is not that case.  The camera, an Olympus C3020, mounts as 
a vfat filesystem over usb.  It also has a habit of developing poor 
battery connections and shutting off about 30 seconds after being 
turned on, but I think I found that tonight, one of the battery 
contacts was slightly gold colored, where the other one was bright 
and shiney.  Some work with a pencil eraser may have slowed that 
down.

But whyinhell do I have to reboot just because a $500 camera is a 
flake?

The usb system can see it connect once only, and once its dropped 
offline, the usb system can only see the reconnect if I reboot first.

I'm rebooting this thing more often than I would a windows box!

-- 
No Cheers, Gene
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