usb digital camera failure

[Bernd Walter]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 07:26:34PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> [root at heather root]# dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/root/blah bs=512
> dd: /dev/da0s1: Input/output error
> 63646+0 records in
> 63646+0 records out
> 32586752 bytes transferred in 812.878115 secs (40088 bytes/sec)
> [root at heather root]# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /root/blah
> md0
> [root at heather root]# mount /dev/md0 /mnt
> mount: /dev/md0 on /mnt: incorrect super block

you want -t msdosfs

> [root at heather root]# ls -al blah
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  32586752 Oct  6 19:22 blah
> 
> The dd took a good 10 minutes and was transferring lots of data over the 
> link before it gave that i/o error.
> 
> So not sure. Is this the problem you have seen before or a new problem?

Could be the well known problem, but the IO error doesn't fit.

> This camera DID used to work perfectly on freebsd 4.x and -current up 
> until recently.

Do you have an idea when "recently" was?

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