Summary

This is a digital video camera from Sony that writes directly to miniature DVDs. The camera has a USB port and the manual suggests the video files should be downloadable to a PC (Windows) over this connection. I am using SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional. After plugging the camera into the computer the system recognized a new kind of USB media connected to the USB port, calling it device /dev/sr0. KDE put an icon on the desktop describing it as a CD-ROM. A mountpoint appeared in the /mnt directory called usb-storage-odd-SONY-StorageDevice-:0:0:0. However, this is as far as it goes. Attempting to use the shell to ls the contents of this directory produces an error "No medium found." Clicking on the CD icon produced by KDE opens an empty Konquerer window and then an error dialog "Could not enter folder /media/usb-storage-odd-SONY-StorageDevice:0:0:0"
This happens even for root. It appears to me Sony is doing something odd with the USB protocol or they implement an unrecognizeable filesystem on the DVD, preventing linux from reading the camera. If anyone has suggestions I will try them and update this report if there is improvement. synthetoonz@die.spam.die.bellsouth.net (remove the die.spam.die)

On my debian sarge I can accees to the Sony DCR-DVD201 camcoder with usb link, but the mini-dvd must be finalized.