abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 (edited) Well I have a sd card reader on my monitor that reads old sd cards that I have. I have a usb card reader that reads old sd cards I have. This is both in Arch linux and Windows 7. I bought three different types of sd card. They will not show up in linux or windows or the Parted Magic live cd. How do I get them to show so that I can use them ?? I tried with a sd card in the monitor and a sd card in the usb reader, $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 15G 4.5G 9.4G 33% / dev 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev run 2.0G 384K 2.0G 1% /run /dev/sdc5 15G 4.5G 9.4G 33% / shm 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 9.8G 42M 9.7G 1% /tmp /dev/sdc1 242M 19M 211M 8% /boot /dev/sdc8 113G 16G 92G 15% /home /dev/sdc7 9.8G 42M 9.7G 1% /tmp /dev/sdc6 9.8G 2.8G 7.0G 29% /var An they do not show up. http://i.imgbox.com/aasMjhqe.png As you can see in the screenshot the two card slots for the monitor (sdd + sde) and the two slots for the card reader (sdf + sdg) show up in spacefm file manager but do not show any cards inserted even though cards are in place. What the heck is going on. Any ideas folks. :'( Edited July 3, 2012 by abarbarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 As soon as you insert the card, open up a terminal and type: dmesg | tail to see if Linux recognizes the media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 $ dmesg | tail [ 2773.225247] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 2785.388640] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2 [ 2785.388664] EXT4-fs (fd0): unable to read superblock [ 2797.568476] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 2809.731927] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2 [ 2809.731952] EXT4-fs (fd0): unable to read superblock [ 2821.902039] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 2834.065337] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 2 [ 2834.065390] EXT4-fs (fd0): unable to read superblock [ 2846.238490] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 That "dev fd0" is my non-existent floppy drive. Next Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Sorry I have no idea. If it cannot read the cards in Windows, Linux, and a livecd; I would think that it is your drive messing up but you tried it with both the monitor and an a usb drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 this just happened to me the past week! Through error and trial I found out that in my case, if the motherboard/BIOS was more than 5 years old it wasn't going to work . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 # fdisk /dev/sdd Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdd: No medium found I get the same for all four slots. Flash drives work. I do not have a old sd card here as they are all in York at me mums. Surely I can not have three duff sd cards ?? :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 # lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0424:2502 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter Bus 002 Device 002: ID ffc0:001f Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0424:2602 Standard Microsystems Corp. USB 2.0 Hub Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0424:2228 Standard Microsystems Corp. 9-in-2 Card Reader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 With a flash drive in sdd I get # fdisk /dev/sdd Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Command (m for help): m Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdd: 506 MB, 506806272 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 982 cylinders, total 989856 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 63 988847 494392+ 6 FAT16 With a sd card in sde I get # fdisk /dev/sde Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. fdisk: unable to open /dev/sde: No medium found I am proper stumped. :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 # fdisk /dev/sde Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.21.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. fdisk: unable to open /dev/sde: No medium found I am proper stumped. :'( Well it would be sde1 not sde. Never mind, I was thinking about mounting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 If the cards are 4GB or larger than they might be sdhc cards. Not all card readers can read them. I have a gizmo to which I insert a card (sd, sdhc, micro sdnc in an sd holder) that I attach to a USB port. Even my old Win 2K computer can "see" sdhc cards when I plug it in via USB. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 If the cards are 4GB or larger than they might be sdhc cards. Not all card readers can read them. I have a gizmo to which I insert a card (sd, sdhc, micro sdnc in an sd holder) that I attach to a USB port. Even my old Win 2K computer can "see" sdhc cards when I plug it in via USB. By golly gosh I think you deserve a couple of pints or cocktails. They are sdhc as advised by the Pi folk. Mow I have to buy yet more equipment. Darn. That means an even longer wait to fire up me Pi.An an even longer wait to see those beautiful tattoos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 SDHC adapters should only run a buck or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 SDHC adapters should only run a buck or two. appen I'll ave t' save me pennies then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 SD card reading solved with the purchase of a £1.00 reader from the local PoundShop. I had to think long and hard about the purchase as £1.00 is a lot of money for a tyke to spend all in one go and they had a choice of colours which made the task even harder. I bought a blue one to match my blue and black pc center theme. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Glad you got it working Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 Now, here is the important question... is the reader compatible with SDXC? There are three SD specs out there..... SD SDHC SDXC Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 4, 2012 Author Share Posted July 4, 2012 Now, here is the important question... is the reader compatible with SDXC? There are three SD specs out there..... SD SDHC SDXC Adam Good Q. No it is not but for an outlay of £1.00 I think I can live with it. Maybe Josh I have ArchArm installed on the sd card. Just waiting for that darn cable to arrive. I could have got one locally for £6.00 but I went for the Buy One Get One Free deal at e-bay at a whooping £1.98 inc postage. I'm a paitient sort of barbaian and I am only up to episode three of the tv series of Smiley's People. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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