[SOLVED] Re: Weird problem: USB lockup with a SD card

[J.L. Coenders]

Hi,
Nobody replied to my question, but finally I solved it myself. To be complete, 
I will post the solution here.
I found a statement somewhere that USB removable disk technology in 
combination with SD cards contains code which is patented. When I switch the 
camera back to camera mode, the usb removable disk technology is not 
activated and the errors do not occur.
The solution is to use gPhoto and the frontend gtkam which is able to get the 
photos off the camera.

- Jeroen

On Saturday 23 October 2004 06:53 pm, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a new digital camera (HP R707) and it works great, except for one
> really bad thing:
> When I have the SD card inserted and connect it to the computer using the
> dock, or the direct cable, USB locks up. When trying to view
> the /proc/bus/usb/devices file the viewing program locks. When I want to
> shutdown, the shutdown locks at pcmcia: unloading Kernel Card Services.
>
> Again, without the SD card, the camera works great and works with the dock
> and the direct cable. It shows up in /proc/bus/usb/devices and great
> recognized as a USB storage devices. Mounting it works great.
>
> I have tested the camera with and without the SD on a windows box and it
> works fine there. So I guess the SD card and the camera are ok and there is
> some problem with the usb-storage driver in FC2. Does anyone have a clue?
>
> On two machines, one running kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and the other kernel
> 2.6.7-1.494.2.2.
>
> I have searched the HP site, googled and searched the archived, but I
> couldn't find any good leads.
>
> - Jeroen