Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[George Reynolds <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been using a PQI memory card reader to transfer data from my digital 
camera to my hard drive (linux SuSE 8.2) for a while now. when I went to use 
it the other week, it popped up the icon on the desktop sde1
and it let me look at the root directory : dcim but if I tried to click on 
this, konqueror froze. I killed konqueror manually and i looked at the 
command prompt.

If I try to go into dcim, it is successful, however, when i do an
>ls 
I get a whole load of corruption and random characters over and over again 
followed by : is not a directory or something similar. The size of the files 
are wrong, they are reading at like 1GB when the card is only 64MB. I have 
got a brand new drive to see if it was faulty, but i get exactly the same 
effect.

Can anybody say why this has suddenly given up?
I was using a (faulty) 4 port hub before on my lapotp, now i have a working 7 
port hub. I do get problems when the laptop doesn't enable the USB at 
startup, so i have to restart the computer, because linux senses there is a 
USB port, but can't access it (the lights don't come on brightly so the USB 
port isn't connecting with the devices). I don't think this is the problem 
though, as all of my other USB devices work fine.

I am getting these sorts of errors too:
Jun  5 12:09:28 linux kernel: lost async page write due to I/O error on 41:00
Jun  5 12:09:28 linux last message repeated 5 times

Hope somebody can be of assistance to why this has suddenly stopped working.

George