[clug] Mounting an SD card

[Geoff Smith]

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:
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>>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.
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> fdisk /dev/sda, and print out the partition table?
> 
> Brad
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