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Distribution: approximately NixOS (http://nixos.org)
Posts: 1,900
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Put your card into the reader and plug it. Check if anything appears in /media . If yes, and it is mounted - OK, else it can appear but wait for you to just mount it. Else you need to compare dmesg output before and after (wait ~10-15 seconds) plugging. It should contain the device name (like sda or sdb), and possibly it can mention something like 'partition scan' and a device name like sda1 or sda5. Try running 'mount /dev/<last device name mentioned in dmesg output> /mnt/<whatever you want, but it must exist>' afterwards. If you have any problems, post last 50 lines of dmesg output after plugging the device.
pls see log after attching the card reader,my led status OK.
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -71
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 498176 512-byte hdwr sectors (255 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: Generic Model: USB CF Reader Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SM Reader Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Vendor: Generic Model: USB MS Reader Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
[admin@serv admin]$
I have a card reader too, and i have been unable to use it in a comfortable way.
Look what happens:
1) insert the card
2) dmesg reports nothing
3) i know the card address is sdc1, when i have no other usb device plugged.
4) pmount /dev/sdc1 data reports the error:
Errore: il dispositivo /dev/sdc1 non esiste
Error: device /dev/sdc1 doesn't exist
5) so i have to use:
pmount /dev/sdc data
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
6) and only now, using sdc1 ( used before ) the card reader works:
pmount /dev/sdc1 data
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