Mounting a card reader (SD cards only)

dave`2005 · 05-26-2006, 03:22 PM

Hi all, having a bit of trouble mounting my usb card reader, while its plugged in with a card in the slot ive tried

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/flash/

but i get

Code:

mount: /dev/sdc is not a valid block device

Any help appreciated.

kencaz · 05-26-2006, 03:29 PM

Is that your only usb device? if so try /dev/sda/...

also, it may (depending on your distro), automount itself. try (in a terminal)

mount

see if it is mounted already and where...

KC

Brian1 · 05-26-2006, 04:36 PM

To see what is seen do the follow commands and post the output.
lsmod
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
lspci
lsusb

and the following requires root.
fdisk -l

Also what is this hardware exactly. Brand and model. Also if it dows more than one type of media cards other than SD cards, meaning multi-media-slot cardreader.

Brian1

dave`2005 · 05-27-2006, 10:38 AM

Thanks for the replys. I have 3 other usb devices, a mouse, a keyboard and a joypad. Not 100% about the auto mounting, slackware 10.2 automounts my cd/dvd's but i think that might be the "auto" in fstab, not sure.
[EDIT]: The card reader only has 1 slot for SD cards, it doesnt have a brand heh.
lsmod output:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by
vfat                    9856  0
fat                    41628  1 vfat
usb_storage            58816  0
loop                   12680  2
snd_pcm_oss            42144  0
snd_mixer_oss          14464  1 snd_pcm_oss
uhci_hcd               27664  0
rtc                    10036  0
usbmouse                4224  0
nvidia_agp              5916  1
joydev                  7744  0
usbkbd                  5632  0
usbhid                 34080  0
ohci_hcd               17156  0
ehci_hcd               24840  0
usbcore               104836  8 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,usbmouse,usbkbd,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
forcedeth              19204  0
snd_intel8x0           26396  0
snd_ac97_codec         80928  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                70152  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              19076  1 snd_pcm
snd                    42468  6 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               7264  1 snd
snd_page_alloc          8200  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
nvidia               4541716  12
i2c_core               16272  1 nvidia
pcmcia                 29220  0
yenta_socket           21900  0
rsrc_nonstatic         10496  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            33552  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
nls_iso8859_1           4096  3
ufsd                  221344  2
ide_scsi               13188  0
agpgart                26672  2 nvidia_agp,nvidia

cat /proc/scsi/scsi:

Code:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: ATA      Model: SAMSUNG SP1614C  Rev: SW10
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Multi    Model: Flash Reader     Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio Processing Unit (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
01:0b.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

lsusb:

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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:00b0 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 06a3:0107 Saitek PLC
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 058f:6331 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

fdisk -l:

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        1785    14337981    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2   *        1786        4703    23438835   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            4704        4865     1301265    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            4704        4865     1301233+  82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1               2       15017   120616020    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5               2       15017   120615988+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1       19457   156288321    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 1030 MB, 1030225920 bytes
4 heads, 3 sectors/track, 167680 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 12 * 512 = 6144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              21      167680     1005958+   b  W95 FAT32

Crito · 05-27-2006, 10:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dave`2005

Hi all, having a bit of trouble mounting my usb card reader, while its plugged in with a card in the slot ive tried mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/flash/ but i get mount: /dev/sdc is not a valid block device

Any help appreciated.

The problem is sdc is not a block device.

meaning you need to specify a partition, like /dev/sdb1 in your case.