Not to steal the thread but same problem except ubuntu recognizes the
SD card and lets me format it just not write to it,,,,when i remove
the card it removes the drive and vice versa.

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Robert Citek<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:58 PM, spokeman<[email protected]> wrote:
>> I've tried 3 card readers of varying ages. One works on Fedora, the
>> other two work on Win 2K and Winxp. None work on Ubuntu in a fresh
>> install. Manually attempting to mount gets:
>>
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
>>       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>       dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>> Help?
>
> Here's what I did with my card reader under Ubuntu 9.04:
>
> 1) clear out dmesg cache
> $ sudo dmesg -c > /dev/null
>
> 2) insert card into card reader and plug card reader into USB
>
> 3) display dmesg
> $ dmesg
> [  331.409324] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 
> 10
> [  331.615009] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [  331.615360] scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [  331.615857] usb-storage: device found at 10
> [  331.615862] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> [  336.618641] usb-storage: device scan complete
> [  336.622598] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Sony     USB   HS-CF
> Card 3.95 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [  336.626480] scsi 9:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Sony     USB   HS-xD/SM
>  3.95 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [  336.630362] scsi 9:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Sony     USB   HS-MS
> Card 3.95 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [  336.633914] scsi 9:0:0:3: Direct-Access     Sony     USB   HS-SD
> Card 3.95 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [  336.642098] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [  336.642249] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> [  336.647299] sd 9:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [  336.647423] sd 9:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
> [  337.705332] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] 1951744 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (999 MB/953 MiB)
> [  337.715931] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Write Protect is off
> [  337.715939] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Mode Sense: 87 00 00 00
> [  337.715944] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [  337.727772] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] 1951744 512-byte hardware sectors:
> (999 MB/953 MiB)
> [  337.738685] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Write Protect is off
> [  337.738694] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Mode Sense: 87 00 00 00
> [  337.738700] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [  337.738715]  sde: sde1
> [  337.742125] sd 9:0:0:2: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [  337.742271] sd 9:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
> [  337.796458] sd 9:0:0:3: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
> [  337.796622] sd 9:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
>
> $ blkid /dev/sde1
> /dev/sde1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="CAMERA" UUID="0000-0000" TYPE="vfat"
>
> $ pmount /dev/sde1
> Error: device /dev/sde1 is not removable
>
> While the pmount did not work (that's odd), I was able to click on
> Places > Removable Media > Camera to mount my MemoryStick card.
>
> What happens when you try the above commands?
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >
>



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