I have some similar experience :'( and 2 SD reader adaptor are gone. The first thing I notice is that under windog, when the USB device is stopped, the power cuts off but this is not happening in Linux, current still supplied to the device and if the reader is push out from the USB port, it kill the reader. Yes, it hotplug, but doesn't seem to be hot unplugable?? Any comment or idea on how to overcome this? I have stopped using reader on my linux desktop at home as I cannot afford to keep killing them. Regards Dennis@sg George Reynolds wrote:
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