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