Alienware Area 51m SD card slot.

Neil Cherry ncherry at linuxha.com
Mon Jan 10 13:24:09 UTC 2011


On 01/09/2011 04:10 PM, Duncan Clark wrote:
> I'm relearning Linux after a long sabbatical.  (I mostly used it in middle school in
> 98-99), and I'm hitting one wall that I think I just need to be pointed in a good
> direction to solve this.
> 
> My SD card slot does not auto-mount or recognise on my Area 51m laptop, and I don't know
> what device it should be showing up as.  Is there a command I can use to try and manually
> mount it?  If not, what drivers would I be looking for or setting up?
> -Duncan
> 

The command dmesg should help here. If Linux can interface to it
then you should see something like this when you put in the SD card
(this will be towards the bottom of the messages):

usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 31
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi16 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 31
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: SD/MMC    Model: Card  Reader      Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: unknown partition table
SCSI device sda: 15720448 512-byte hdwr sectors (8049 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case
sensitive!
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case
sensitive!

What you are most interested is the sda (scsi disk A). The above may be from several
flash/SD/USB cards I was workign with recently.

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