Ricoh SD card reader not recognizing SDHC cards (Dell Studio 1558) on raring

[acidicX]

This affects raring (13.04) - Ubuntu 3.8.0-34.49-generic 3.8.13.12.

The Ricoh SD card reader inside Dell Studio 1558 not recognizing SDHC cards (8GB transcend SDHC)

07:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0413
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at f0700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

07:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0413
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 7
 Memory at f0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

dmesg reports a lot of these (see attached file):
- mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data, sector 2048, nr 8, cmd response 0x900, card status 0x0

Card works fine on the same machine on Win 8.1 and other PCs. I wasn't able to test on Mainline Kernels due to the stupid ATI/AMD drivers not working with those kernels :-(

I got the reader to work *one time only* with reloading the kernel modules:

rmmod sdhci_pci
rmmod sdhci
modprobe sdhci
modprobe sdhci_pci

After the next reboot it didn't fix it anymore.

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[Heritiana RASETY (herras7)]

hello,
i have the same problem with ubuntu 13.10 on dell vostro 1015 : i cant read SD card, and i got the same message in dmesg when i insert an SD card (mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data, sector 2048, nr 8, cmd response 0x900, card status 0x0).

lspci -v
0f:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd MMC/SD Host Controller (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0402
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at f65ff600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci

0f:00.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5U2xx (R5U230 / R5U231 / R5U241) [Memory Stick Host Controller] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0402
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
 Memory at f65ff700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

0f:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 PCIe IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device 0402
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
 Memory at f65ff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/626823 has the same problem.

any advice?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Heritiana RASETY, thank you for your comment. So your hardware and problem may be tracked, could you please file a new report with Ubuntu by executing the following in a terminal while booted into a Ubuntu repository kernel (not a mainline one) via:
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