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I've spent a couple of hours trying to figure this out for myself, but I'm a newbie and still getting to grips with linux. I want to get my o2 micro sd card reader working, when its connected to the camera I can connect straight to the images via digikam, but when I insert it into the reader nothing happens and nothing is listed in mount or /etc/fstab, Yast tells me its found the hardware, so when i run
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Linux:/home/tom # dmesg | grep scsi
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
it says its found it, which is really weird because
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Linux:/home/tom # sg_scan
Linux:/home/tom # sg_map
Stopping because no sg devices found
Linux:/home/tom #
I think this is because of a lack of understanding on my part, and I have tried numerous other articles which just confused me. I wish i could give more information but I haven't got a clue where to start?!
**Do i just need to mount it? is it "mkdir mnt/sda1" "mount sda1 mnt" or something confusing like that?**
Yast hardware log:
Quote:
<5>sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
<5>sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
<7>usb-storage: device scan complete
<4>printk: 74 messages suppressed.
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248896
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248897
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248898
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248899
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248896
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248897
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248898
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248899
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 249016
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 249017
<5>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<6>: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
<6> Additional sense: No reference position found
<5>SCSI device sda: 497664 512-byte hdwr sectors (255 MB)
<4>sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<5>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<6>: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
<6> Additional sense: No reference position found
<5>SCSI device sda: 497664 512-byte hdwr sectors (255 MB)
<4>sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda: sda1
<5>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<6>: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
<6> Additional sense: No reference position found
<5>SCSI device sda: 497664 512-byte hdwr sectors (255 MB)
<4>sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<5>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
<6>: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
<6> Additional sense: No reference position found
<5>SCSI device sda: 497664 512-byte hdwr sectors (255 MB)
<4>sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
<3>sda: assuming drive cache: write through
<6> sda: sda1
<4>printk: 74 messages suppressed.
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248896
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248897
<3>Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 248898
<5>sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
DMESG:
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Linux:/home/tom # dmesg | grep CardBus
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.0 [1734:106d]
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.1 [1734:106d]
Linux:/home/tom # dmesg | grep Yenta
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.0 [1734:106d]
Yenta O2: res at 0x94/0xD4: 00/ea
Yenta O2: enabling read prefetch/write burst
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0a38, PCI irq 169
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:09.1 [1734:106d]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0a38, PCI irq 169
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