[ubuntu-uk] card reader not recognised

[Norman Silverstone]

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> Jul 22 14:20:46 digital-darkroom kernel: [ 5604.633232] sd 7:0:0:0:
> [sdc] READ CAPACITY failed
> Jul 22 14:20:46 digital-darkroom kernel: [ 5604.633235] sd 7:0:0:0:
> [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK,SUGGEST_OK
> 
> to me suggests that you might want to run dosfsck on the card being
> used. Notice it's talking about sdc and not the card reader directly,
> that indicates it's talking about the card. Plug the thing in with the
> card in, wait until it mounts, then unmount it (click on the icon on the
> desktop and eject or in a terminal use sudo umount /dev/sdc) then in a
> terminal run sudo dosfsck /dev/sdc1 . 

Here is the reponse:-

norman at digital-darkroom:~$ sudo dosfsck /dev/sdc1
dosfsck 3.0.1, 23 Nov 2008, FAT32, LFN
open /dev/sdc1:No such file or directory
norman at digital-darkroom:~$ 
> 
> If this does not give a response then it's some interaction between the
> driver for the card reader and the card reader, and without knowing the
> make/model of the card reader (a pastebin of the output from lsusb will
> tell us this) I don't think I can be of much more use. Sorry.

Bus 001 Device 053: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 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
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
norman at digital-darkroom:~$ 

I hope this helps.

Norman