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Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Card Reader not working on an Acer Aspire 5920 with Ubuntu 14.10

Asked by zberra

Hi,

I have an Acer Aspire 5929 with a built in card reader. The reader is a SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822. When I insert a card into the card reader, nothing shows up in Ubuntu. I can neiter see it when I do a fdisk -l.

The only information I get is from the syslog where it says:

mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card
sdhci-pci 0000:0a:09.1: Will use DMA mode even though HW doesn't fully claim to support it.

There is nothing wrong with the SD card as it works on another computer.

Are there anyone out there who has got this working ?

Many thanks in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; lsusb

Thanks

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zberra (zberra) said : 		#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10
Codename: utopic
Linux z-pc 3.16.0-30-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jan 12 22:06:37 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 09da:0006 A4 Tech Co., Ltd Optical Mouse WOP-35 / Trust 450L Optical Mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#3

Please try the solution here:

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?56789-SD-multicard-reader-not-working-on-Dell-Inspiron-E1705

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zberra (zberra) said : 		#4

Many thanks for your help! The card I was having issues with was a preformatted Raspbian image. Attched to the Raspbian unit, it was working as it should. As I couldn't read the image with the built in card reader, I went out and purchased an external USB card reader. Even though that with this one I could see the different partitions with fdisk, I was still not able to mount it. I have now been able to confirm that in the end the issue seems to have been the SD card, as after I had it reformatted on another machine, it now works as it should on the internal card reader.

Many thanks for your help on this!

:)