I've updated the bios to version A09 today and checked if the problem still exists. It does.
So with the information from Blackgr i tested the two kernel versions and i can indeed verify that kernel 4.1.8-040108-generic reads mt SDXC card just fine (four line excerpt from dmesg): [ 92.252656] mmc0: new ultra high speed SDR104 SDXC card at address 0007 [ 92.252866] mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SD64G 58.1 GiB [ 92.255131] mmcblk0: p1 [ 92.471332] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) tud254222 ~$ uname -a Linux tud254222 4.1.8-040108-generic #201509211431 SMP Mon Sep 21 18:34:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux whereas kernel 4.1.9-040109-generic shows the erroneous behaviour (three line excerpt from dmesg, repeated 4 times): [ 64.118346] sdhci: Timeout waiting for Buffer Read Ready interrupt during tuning procedure, falling back to fixed sampling clock [ 64.120131] mmc0: tuning execution failed [ 64.120136] mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card tud254222 ~/Downloads/4.1.9$ uname -a Linux tud254222 4.1.9-040109-generic #201509291430 SMP Tue Sep 29 18:32:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thank you Blackgr for the hard work! My SD card is a Kingston SD10VG2/64GB SDXC ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1514821 Title: SD card reader on Dell E7250 doesn't work in Ubuntu 15.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1514821/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs