SD Card Will Only Mount Once Per Boot

[Michael Satterwhite]

On 02/09/2011 06:39 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Michael Satterwhite<michael at weblore.com>  wrote:
>> After Boot, I insert an SD Card into the reader. Shortly afterward, I see it
>> mounted as a 1 GB Filesystem on my desktop. It is completely usable at that
>> time.
>>
>> I right click it and select Safely Remove. I then remove the card from the
>> reader.
>>
>> A bit later, I reinsert the card (or another one). Nothing happens, the card
>> does not get mounted anywhere.
>>
> This may be related to which version of Ubuntu you are running, so
> providing that information might help us help you.
>
> However, that said, you seem to be under the misimpression that the
> flash card is a device.  On my system, I have to disconnect the flash
> card reader itself, switch flash cards and reconnect the reader.
> Changing the flash card itself is not enough because it isn't a device
> as recognized by the OS, the reader is the device and a lot of readers
> don't handle the cards as if they were interchangeable devices (i.e.,
> once it's out, the reader is functionally dead until you disconnect an
> reconnect it).
>
> This may not be true of all readers, but that's how mine works. YMMV.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10

The flash card reader is built into the printer. It mounted every time 
in older versions of Ubuntu. It mounted every time in PCLinuxOS. It 
mounted every time in Fedora (I've been doing some distro hopping). It's 
only now that it doesn't.