Gigabyte SD memory card

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 11:43 +0100, Le grand pinguin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 05:23:36AM -0500, strips wrote:
> > 
> > > Dec 20 15:44:45 aca-vnt kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. 
> > 
> > Well.. either the kernel or your reader doen't support 1GB SD cards.
> > Tried the reader on another linux kernel or maybe Windows?
> 
> Hmm, is this really the relevant log entry? Somehow i think this
> 
> 1) > kernel:  /dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>Buffer I/O error on device
>    > sda, logical block 0
> 2) > Dec 20 15:44:45 aca-vnt kernel:  unable to read partition table
> 
> is more important. Two questions to the OP: 
> 
>  - is this disk allready formated? (does it have a filesystem)?
>    Without a filesystem automaounting can'T work :-)

Yes, and the card mounts fine on a Windows box.

>  - 'I/O error' sounds nasty - is it possible that the disk is damaged?
>    (the kernel tries to read block 0 on the device (to read the partition
>     table) but the device (disk) reports an error.

It's brand new and works on Windows and my Palm, so I assume the card is
OK.

I had assumed the above messages were because it could not deal with the
size of the disk, but ...


Regards,
Tony.
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