I've got a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD101. When I plug connect the USB cable to my laptop (Ubuntu 10) it doesn't mount any storage device.

If I run usb-devices, I see:

T:  Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  6 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=054c ProdID=00c1 Rev=01.00
S:  Manufacturer=SONY
S:  Product=Storage Device
C:  #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=2mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=05 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage

The driver says usb-storage, but I'm not sure how to get the device mounted. Is there a way to make this work?

Update: checking dmesg, I see:

[259072.576559] usb 2-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[259072.687200] usb 2-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[259072.836188] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[259072.836476] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[259072.836632] usb-storage: device found at 6
[259072.836636] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[259072.836660] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[259072.836666] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[259077.830410] usb-storage: device scan complete
[259077.832343] scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM            SONY     DDX-A1010        R1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[259077.888167] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x pop-up
[259077.888446] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[259077.888593] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[259080.002079] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Unhandled sense code
[259080.002085] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[259080.002091] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Blank Check [current] 
[259080.002097] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[259080.002104] sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
[259080.002117] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 0
[259080.002123] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 0
[259080.002128] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 1

Those I/O errors don't look good, is there any hope?