No driver for flash memory device

[Liam Proven]

On 26 March 2013 15:42, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-26 at 15:00 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 25 March 2013 23:50, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Ubuntu 12.10 - with latest updates.
>> > When I insert the SD card into the laptop's SD card slot,
>> > it is not detected, and so I am unable to mount it, no is it
>> > automounted.
>> >
>> > lspci shows
>> >
>> > 00:09.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus
>> > Controller (rev 20)
>> > 00:09.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711M1/MC1 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus
>> > Controller (rev 20)
>> > 00:09.2 System peripheral: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711Mx 4-in-1 MemoryCardBus
>> > Accelerator
>> >
>> > What is the driver that is supposed to handle an SD card device?
>>
>> There's no special driver - it's just a mass storage device.
>>
>> *But* I have seen a problem like this before. Some card slots are not
>> hot-swappable under Linux. However, for me, they work fine *if* the
>> card is inserted *before Linux is booted*.
>>
>> I suggest you try that.
>>
> Or get a cheap multi-card reader with usb output. That works on one
> machine that I deal with.

Yes, that's true, but not always helpful. The last time I encountered
this issue, for example - really, actually, seriously - was in
mid-December at something like 35,000' over the Atlantic on my way to
Barbados.

I don't think BA inflight duty-free do USB multiformat card readers.

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