Problems mounting digital camera on FC3

[Keven Ring]

I posted this to fedora-list a couple of days ago, but have not had any 
responses.  Given past successes with getting problems solved there, I 
am going to assume that either noone else has this problem, or no one 
has any ideas what is different, and how to get it to work.

That being said, I have a Nikon D70 digital camera that I am trying to 
mount on a freshly installed FC3.  When I plug the camera in, and turn 
it on, I get the following messages in /var/log/messages (editted for 
brevity):

Nov  9 14:31:14 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: new full speed USB device 
using address 8
Nov  9 14:31:14 localhost kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Nov  9 14:31:14 localhost kernel:   Vendor: NIKON     Model: 
D70               Rev: 1.01
Nov  9 14:31:14 localhost kernel:   Type:   
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: sda: Spinning up disk......ready
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 3999745 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (2048 MB)
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel:  sda:end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
sector 3999744
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, 
logical block 3999744
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
sector 3999744
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda, 
logical block 3999744
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel:  sda1
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at 
scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov  9 14:31:18 localhost scsi.agent[20673]: disk at 
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.4/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/host3/3:0:0:0
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
sector 63
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 0
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 1
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 2
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 3
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 4
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 5
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 6
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 7
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, 
sector 575
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 512
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 513
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 514
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 515
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 516
Nov  9 14:31:19 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, 
logical block 517
....

This continues for some while.

If I were just looking at this, I might assume that the CF card 
(actually, a microdrive) was improperly formatted, or that there were 
other problems reading the card.

However, using the same exact computer, but booting into a stock FC1, I 
have no problems (although I have to mount /dev/sda1 myself).

Note, I have not been able to successfully mount the camera in either 
FC2 or FC3, suggesting a problem with the 2.6 kernel (could be a red 
herring, but...).

Any recommendations on how to proceed or test would be greatly 
appreciated.  I can provide additional information, as requested (eg, 
FC1 /var/log/messages, lsmod, etc).

Tonight, I am going to try and build a stock 2.6 kernel, and see if that 
helps, hinders, or continues with the same results.

TIA

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