Robert et al. I apologize for not responding sooner - it appears the card itself died. I wasn't expecting this, as I use the card daily, and have for a couple of years. It just went away - no warning. I've only ever lost one other - I believe to static. Don't know about this one.
Tried Robert's sequence - nada. I can get another card to mount in the card reader, so I'm thinking this is the card, not the reader(s). Fdisk was slightly more helpful - at least it found something. Although, I expect the best results I can get at this point are to format the disk. It might still be useable, but I'm not sure, and once it has died and been resurrected, hmmmm - trustworthy value at that point? Idk. Terminal session results follow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~fdisk~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 8192. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8192 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000e2e87 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Command (m for help): v 16777215 unallocated sectors `````````````````dmesg and mount````````````````````````````````` hi...@hiero1:/usr/lib/mc/mc-4.6.2$ dmesg [137318.452977] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 16777216 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.58 GB/8.00 GiB) [137318.455005] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [137318.455012] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 [137318.455016] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [137318.459438] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 16777216 512-byte hardware sectors: (8.58 GB/8.00 GiB) [137318.460960] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [137318.460967] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 [137318.460971] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [137318.460981] sdc: [137318.536963] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777088 [137318.536972] __ratelimit: 32 callbacks suppressed [137318.536977] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097136 [137318.538958] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777088 [137318.538969] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097136 [137318.541180] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.541189] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097150 [137318.542945] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.542956] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097150 [137318.545010] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.545021] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097151 [137318.561925] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.561936] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097151 [137318.563908] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777088 [137318.563913] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097136 [137318.566918] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.566926] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097151 [137318.568919] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.568927] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097150 [137318.570907] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.570911] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 2097151 [137318.572917] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.574905] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.576920] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.578906] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777152 [137318.580920] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.582904] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.584914] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.586903] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.588915] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.596910] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.604910] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.612907] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.620906] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.628906] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777152 [137318.636903] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.644901] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.652926] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.742887] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777088 [137318.744892] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777088 [137318.746878] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.748895] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.750879] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.761886] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.763875] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.765885] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.767874] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.769882] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.771874] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.773883] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777152 [137318.775872] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777200 [137318.777880] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 [137318.779873] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 16777208 hi...@hiero1:/usr/lib/mc/mc-4.6.2$ blkid /dev/sdc hi...@hiero1:/usr/lib/mc/mc-4.6.2$ pmount /dev/sdc The program 'pmount' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install pmount bash: pmount: command not found hi...@hiero1:/usr/lib/mc/mc-4.6.2$ sudo mount /dev/sdc mount: can't find /dev/sdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab =============original message================================ On Jul 20, 10:48 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. 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