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computer is not recognizing my smart media card.

Asked by mikey

i have a e-machine T3256 Tower with a digital media card reader built in.

When i place my SD card into the reader, the green light comes on letting me know i have placed media in the drive.

when i go to computer (Using Linux Mint Elyssa + Nautilus 2.22.2) the following drives are displayed:
Cd-Rom, CD/DVD RM, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, Smart Media, Filesystem

When i click on CompactFlash, Memory Stick and/or Smart Media (with the card inserted and the green light on) it tells me:
   Unable to Mount Location
     No Media in the Drive.

how do i get this OS to read my card reader!

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Best Harvey Muller (hlmuller) said : 		#1

mikey,

Let's see what's going on. The commands I am going to give you are going to create a little report which will let me see exactly what's happening. Open up a terminal (if you don't know, just ask) and run these commands as a normal user:

    (The $ character is the prompt, don't need to type it!)

    Ensure there are no media inserted first, and then run:

    $ dmesg > reader.pre

    Now insert the media and run:

    $ dmesg > reader.post

    Now create the report:

    $ diff reader.pre reader.post > reader.log

    Now open it up using gedit, copy and paste the text into a comment here.

    $ gedit reader.log

You don't need those files anymore, you can delete them:

    $ rm reader.pre reader.post reader.log

Don't forget to copy and paste the text back here.

Thanks!

Harvey

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mikey (ucfsegall) said : 		#2

Harvey,

thanks for the information and sorry for the long delay in response. i was in the process of completing your suggestion when the card reader just began working on it's on.

i think this is what was happening:

i have the habit of leaving the SD adapter in the reader all of the time, and placing my micro SD card in when i want to read it.

This time i booted up without the adapter in the drive, then i placed the adapter with the micro SD card seated into the adapter into the drive after the computer was completely booted up.

It worked fine.

i abandoned running the report you asked me to run now that i think i figured out why i was having issues.

From now on, i will always boot up the computer with the card reader drive empty.

Thanks again,
mike

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Tom Frost (tfrost) said : 		#3

I seem to be having the exact problem as Mikey was...

I insert my SM card into my Olympus MAUSB-10 reader
but it won't mount because it says "no media inserted"

here are the results of the above testing log....

can someone help please?????

Tom

609a610,675
> [15086.313037] usb 2-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
> [15086.540614] usb 2-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [15086.651850] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> [15086.656051] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [15086.656209] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> [15086.656214] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> [15086.656459] usb-storage: device found at 5
> [15086.656461] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> [15086.692623] usbcore: registered new interface driver alauda
> [15091.660049] usb-storage: device scan complete
> [15091.660215] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Olympus MAUSB-10 (Alauda 0102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> [15091.660254] scsi 4:0:0:1: Direct-Access Olympus MAUSB-10 (Alauda 0102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> [15091.662263] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [15091.662351] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> [15091.665230] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [15091.665308] sd 4:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> [15104.238947] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> [15104.239039] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] READ CAPACITY(16) failed
> [15104.239042] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> [15104.239046] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Use 0xffffffff as device size
> [15104.239052] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] 4294967296 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
> [15104.239080] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> [15104.239083] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [15104.244972] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
> [15104.245079] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] READ CAPACITY(16) failed
> [15104.245081] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE,SUGGEST_OK
> [15104.245085] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Use 0xffffffff as device size
> [15104.245090] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] 4294967296 512-byte hardware sectors: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
> [15104.245118] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
> [15104.245120] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [15104.245127] sdc:<0>divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [15104.247939] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-10/2-10:1.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:1/block/sdc/uevent
> [15104.247944] Dumping ftrace buffer:
> [15104.247948] (ftrace buffer empty)
> [15104.247950] Modules linked in: alauda mtd nand_ecc usb_storage binfmt_misc ppdev bridge stp bnep video output input_polldev lp parport snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device snd hid_dell cdc_ether usbnet soundcore snd_page_alloc nvidia(P) psmouse i2c_nforce2 dcdbas pcspkr mii k8temp agpgart serio_raw usblp usbhid fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
> [15104.247979]
> [15104.247983] Pid: 10273, comm: usb-storage Tainted: P (2.6.28-14-generic #47-Ubuntu) Inspiron 531s
> [15104.247986] EIP: 0060:[<f8146933>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 1
> [15104.247999] EIP is at alauda_read_data+0xe3/0x2c0 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248001] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: d8d5d060 EDX: 00000000
> [15104.248004] ESI: 00000000 EDI: dd3ede40 EBP: ea68dee0 ESP: ea68de6c
> [15104.248006] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
> [15104.248009] Process usb-storage (pid: 10273, ti=ea68c000 task=d8c34b60 task.ti=ea68c000)
> [15104.248011] Stack:
> [15104.248013] c04fe93d ea68de94 f813c214 d8d5d060 00000303 00000008 00000000 ea429394
> [15104.248019] 00009394 00000010 ea680000 f813cc43 00000000 00000002 00000000 80000580
> [15104.248024] ea429394 d8d5d060 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
> [15104.248030] Call Trace:
> [15104.248032] [<c04fe93d>] ? wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout+0xd/0x10
> [15104.248045] [<f813c214>] ? usb_stor_msg_common+0xd4/0x120 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248053] [<f813cc43>] ? usb_stor_ctrl_transfer+0x93/0xa0 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248063] [<f8146bf8>] ? alauda_transport+0xe8/0x240 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248074] [<f813beed>] ? usb_stor_invoke_transport+0x1d/0x270 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248085] [<c0133b54>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x104/0x290
> [15104.248092] [<c04fffb6>] ? _spin_lock_irq+0x16/0x20
> [15104.248098] [<c04fe88a>] ? wait_for_common+0xda/0x150
> [15104.248104] [<c0133ce0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
> [15104.248110] [<f813bb68>] ? usb_stor_transparent_scsi_command+0x8/0x10 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248121] [<f813dc38>] ? usb_stor_control_thread+0x148/0x1f0 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248131] [<f813daf0>] ? usb_stor_control_thread+0x0/0x1f0 [usb_storage]
> [15104.248142] [<c014e93c>] ? kthread+0x3c/0x70
> [15104.248149] [<c014e900>] ? kthread+0x0/0x70
> [15104.248154] [<c0105477>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [15104.248161] Code: 85 c0 0f 84 eb 01 00 00 8b 45 a4 89 d9 23 75 a4 d3 e8 66 89 45 b4 89 75 d4 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 0f b7 5d b4 31 d2 8b 4d 98 89 d8 <f7> 75 e0 89 c6 8b 07 8b 40 44 8d 04 c0 8d 14 81 8b 42 1c 8b 04
> [15104.248211] EIP: [<f8146933>] alauda_read_data+0xe3/0x2c0 [usb_storage] SS:ESP 0068:ea68de6c
> [15104.248226] ---[ end trace 4159c21ad8d26edf ]---