Memorycard reader doesn't work with 1Gb memory cards

keripukki · 08-05-2006, 08:16 AM

Hi,
I have Memory Card Reader that came with Nokia 6681 mobile phone. Yesterday I bought an 1Gb memory card and it worked fine with Windows.

When I try to use memory card reader with Linux, I get an error that /dev/sda1 doesn't exist. When I try to use same card reader with 64Mb memory card, it works fine but it doesn't work if I use 1Gb memory card.

With Windows 1Gb memory card & 64Mb memory card work both fine but with Linux only 64Mb memory card works.

What's wrong?

lazlow · 08-06-2006, 01:53 AM

Just a guess but it could be a format issue. Try formatting it in the phone or some non-windows device.

Lazlow

keripukki · 08-06-2006, 05:14 AM

I formatted memory card in phone but it didn't help. :/

When I plug memory card reader to usb in Linux, dmesg says that system has created device for it... When I plug memory card reader with 64Mb memory card it creates /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but when I plug memory card reader with 1Gb card it only creates /dev/sda but NOT /dev/sda1... that's why I can't mount memory card reader with 1Gb card.

lazlow · 08-06-2006, 10:50 AM

On my system when I mount a usb drive it just creates /dev/sda so creating two seems a little odd.

Ok, we need lots of information: motherboard and bios version, destro, kernel revision, 32/64 bit OS, usb1.0/1.1/2.0, dmesg after trying to mount 1g, and probably more just cannot think of what right now.

lazlow

keripukki · 08-12-2006, 04:10 AM

Motherboard is EPOX 8RDA3+. Distro is Gentoo, kernel is 2.6.16-gentoo-r9. OS is 32bit.

Here's dmesg:

Code:

ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: wakeup
usb 1-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: USB       Model: Storage Device    Rev:
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 2038784 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 2038784 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda:
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

keripukki · 08-12-2006, 04:30 AM

It seems that this is format issue.. I checked partitions with fdisk and from 64Mb memory card fdisk seems to find FAT16 partition but from 1Gb disk fdisk cannot find partition at all. :/ Anyway 1Gb card works with Windows and phone.. What should I do now?