malev: As BongoMan wrote on 2009-10-26, this also affects Karmic (9.10), which I can confirm, too.
It also affects one of my systems, an Asus UL30A-QX130V with BIOS v211 (running 9.10, linux-image-2.6.31-16-generic and linux-backports-modules): Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. While the SD device is correctly detected and a device node is assigned (/dev/sdb) attempts to mount with 'mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb' fail with: mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/sdb I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or /proc/filesystems Trying fuseblk mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: /dev/sdb: unknown device Specifying the filesystem as in 'mount -v -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/sdb' doesn't help: mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb ...trying again mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb This linux-usb bug seems to be related: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14228 Using 'sg_start -l /dev/sdb' as suggested there does not help, it just prints: open /dev/sdb with flags=0x802 Start stop unit command: 1b 00 00 00 03 00 Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/88746 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14228 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14228 -- Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader don't work in Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 (058f:6362 Device offlined) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs