USB card reader problem

Petter Adsen petter at synth.no
Thu Aug 13 09:29:22 UTC 2015


On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 01:56:08 -0700
Tony Baechler <bats at batsupport.com> wrote:
> Is this a problem with my USB port, my card reader or some other hardware 
> problem?  Should I pass something on the kernel command line?  Other 
> external drives don't exhibit this behavior, but it happens on many 
> different SD cards.  For what it's worth, I've noticed brand new cards with 
> nothing on them seem to have the problem more often, but formatting them 
> sometimes helps.  Similarly, if I unplug the reader and plug it in again, I 
> get the strange error message and slow behavior.  I have two front USB ports 
> and it doesn't seem to matter which one I use.

Do you have the option of trying the card reader in another machine,
and/or trying another card reader on this machine? As a first instinct
I would be suspicious of the reader, or maybe the cable, if other USB
devices work fine.

Petter

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