[clug] Mounting an SD card

[Robert Edwards]

I think I am on solid ground on this one: Secure Digital (SD) media is not 
(yet) supported on Linux and other Open Source O/S's as the SD interface 
contains proprietry code belonging to some industry group that are interested 
in protecting the code (security by obscurity?).

This is an issue for the Compaq (HP) iPaq handhelds running Familiar Linux as 
they have a MMC/SD slot and can read/write MMC media, but not SD media.

On the other hand, the Sharp Zaurus (also running Linux - it's native O/S) has 
an MMC/SD slot but a (as I understand it) binary-only kernel module to 
support reading/writing any SD media.

So, it can be done, but you need to have proprietry code.

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

On Wed, 28 May 2003 10:20 pm, Geoff Smith wrote:
> It says it's an Iwill.
>
> Some other info I've found:
>
> [root at gcalaptop root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>    Vendor: 6-in-1   Model: CF/MD            Rev: 0202
>    Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
>
>
> [root at gcalaptop root]# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0
>     Host scsi0: usb-storage
>         Vendor: IMGSYS-3
>        Product: 6-in-1
> Serial Number: 0211010000001
>       Protocol: Transparent SCSI
>      Transport: Bulk
>           GUID: 04fc56020000211010000001
>       Attached: Yes
>
>
> I took out the SD card and put in a sony memory stick, I'm having the
> same problems with it. I guess I'm really needing to find out how do I
> access each different port.... In windows they show up as four
> individual drives.
>
> Geoff
>
> Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> > Hmmm
> >
> > What brand is the reader?
> >
> > As far as I can tell there are some which initialise up to 5 or 6 scsi
> > devices wheb connected (have one here). is there other scsi devices
> > being shown??
> >
> > Tomasz Ciolek
> >
> > On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 09:39:03PM +1000, Geoff Smith wrote:
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
> >>scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host =
> >>0, driver = 08
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not
> >>present
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512
> >>bytes, disk size 1GB.
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> >>May 28 21:03:09 gcalaptop kernel:  unable to read partition table
> >>
> >>
> >>Not sure why it says the medium isn't present...
> >>
> >>[root at gcalaptop root]# fdisk /dev/sda
> >>Unable to read /dev/sda
> >>
> >>
> >>Could it be that /dev/sda isn't actually the SD slot, but one of the
> >>others like compactflash? How can I find out what each slot actually is?
> >>
> >>Geoff
> >>
> >>Brad Hards wrote:
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> >>>On Wed, 28 May 2003 21:14 pm, Geoff Smith wrote:
> >>>>I just bought a Canon IXUS II digital camera, which seems to be as yet
> >>>>unsupported in linux, at least it's not a USB mass storage device. So,
> >>>>no dramas, I have a USB SD card reader that does work as a mass storage
> >>>>device. When I plug it in, it shows up no worries in /var/log/messages.
> >>>
> >>>It should tell you what the SCSI device is. Can you post an extract?
> >>>
> >>>>Where I'm striking problems is actually mounting the SD card. The
> >>>> reader is a 6-in-1 type (CF/Microdrive, SmartMedia, Memory Stick,
> >>>> SD/MMC). I'm pretty confident that the SD port is /dev/sda. However,
> >>>> when I tried to mount it, I get this message:
> >>>>
> >>>>[root at gcalaptop root]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/camera
> >>>>/dev/sda: Input/output error
> >>>>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> >>>
> >>>As Tomasz said, try fat or vfat.
> >>>
> >>>>So my question has become, what is the filesystem type? I checked in
> >>>>windows, and it seemed to think it was a RAW filesystem. Does that make
> >>>>sense to anyone? On another laptop that has a built in SD card reader
> >>>>(also running windows xp pro), it simply said the card wasn't
> >>>> formatted.
> >>>
> >>>fdisk /dev/sda, and print out the partition table?
> >>>
> >>>Brad
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