Olympus WS-200S usb drive doesn't work

[Arniepoo]

Hi,

I have just bought one of the above. It is a very small digital voice recorder that has a USB interface for downloading files. I am having problems getting this device to work on my box. I have tested it at work on a windows box and it appears as a disk without any problems.

The first strange problem was that when I plug it in lsusb hangs (e.g. just doesn't report anything). As soon as I pull it out lsusb reports correctly.

dmesg reports that a usb device has been identified and an address assigned. /var/log/messages seems to be reporting a read error on the device (I apologize for the lack of specifics I am writing this in a bored moment at work).

I ran hal-info and the device shows up with all the correct device information.

I have a number of other USB devices that work fine (stick, shuffle, camera, printer).

I am not quite sure where to start tackling this one. I don't know if it's a kernel driver issue, a udev issue or some other configuration issue.

Help

Thanks,

Arnie

[bjlockie]

Does it claim to be a Mass Storage Device?

[bjlockie]

Google for '"Olympus WS-200S" Linux'.