Alienware Area 51m SD card slot.
 

I'm relearning Linux after a long sabbatical. (I mostly used it in
middle school in 98-99), and I'm hitting one wall that I think I just
need to be pointed in a good direction to solve this.


My SD card slot does not auto-mount or recognise on my Area 51m laptop,
and I don't know what device it should be showing up as. Is there a
command I can use to try and manually mount it? If not, what drivers
would I be looking for or setting up?

-Duncan

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Alienware Area 51m SD card slot.
 

On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 13:10 -0800, Duncan Clark wrote:
> I'm relearning Linux after a long sabbatical. (I mostly used it in
> middle school in 98-99), and I'm hitting one wall that I think I just
> need to be pointed in a good direction to solve this.
>
> My SD card slot does not auto-mount or recognise on my Area 51m laptop,
> and I don't know what device it should be showing up as. Is there a
> command I can use to try and manually mount it? If not, what drivers
> would I be looking for or setting up?
> -Duncan
>

I've got one of these in my old Toshiba laptop. Mine doesn't work
either. lspci produces
Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)
for which so far as I can tell there is no Linux driver.

I just use my cards with a cheap USB reader which works fine.

Dave



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On 01/09/2011 04:10 PM, Duncan Clark wrote:
> I'm relearning Linux after a long sabbatical. (I mostly used it in middle school in
> 98-99), and I'm hitting one wall that I think I just need to be pointed in a good
> direction to solve this.
>
> My SD card slot does not auto-mount or recognise on my Area 51m laptop, and I don't know
> what device it should be showing up as. Is there a command I can use to try and manually
> mount it? If not, what drivers would I be looking for or setting up?
> -Duncan
>

The command dmesg should help here. If Linux can interface to it
then you should see something like this when you put in the SD card
(this will be towards the bottom of the messages):

usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 31
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi16 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 31
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: SD/MMC Model: Card Reader Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case
sensitive!
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case
sensitive!

What you are most interested is the sda (scsi disk A). The above may be from several
flash/SD/USB cards I was workign with recently.

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