Re: Casio Exilim camera

Alan Stern <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:06:53 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> My query concerns a Casio Exilim EX-S770 camera which worked fine until
> yesterday. This device connects to the USB port via a dock which also
> serves as a charging dock. You put the camera (powered down) into the
> dock and press a button (on the dock) which puts the device into USB
> mode.  Here's how it's identified by the kernel:

> While the camera was connected yesterday, the file system became
> suddenly unavailable and the thing is now completely unresponsive (won't
> connect, won't power up, won't do anything). The trouble begins here:

> Is this thing totally bricked?

If the camera/dock combination no longer works at all, even on other
computers, then it's fair to say that one or the other is bricked.

>  I've seen 4 or 5 similar reports on the
> net about this camera. Is there a way to force the kernel to attach the
> device despite all these file-system errors?

There's no way to force the kernel to attach a bricked device.  Not 
that it would do you any good if you could, since every I/O attempt 
would merely generate another one of those errors.

You might be able to get the things working again by doing a complete 
reinitialization.  I don't know what that would involve, though.

Alan Stern


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