Flash card reader only works with some SD cards

[Nicholas Allen]

I have an internal flash card reader that can read SD cards. Some cards work without any problem but others are not recognized at all. I know there is no hardware problem because if I boot into Windows they can all be read and the cards work in other laptops too.

When I insert a card that cannot be read I get the following messages in /var/log/kern.log:

May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.901000] SCSI device sda: 248320 512-byte hdwr sectors (127 MB)
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.904000] sda: Write Protect is off
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.904000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.904000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.914000] SCSI device sda: 248320 512-byte hdwr sectors (127 MB)
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.917000] sda: Write Protect is off
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.917000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.917000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
May 29 22:20:37 localhost kernel: [4296699.917000] sda: unknown partition table

Here is the output of some other commands:

 lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 10d5:0004 Uni Class Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0483:1307 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Cytronix 6in1 card reader
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c01e Logitech, Inc. MX518 Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

 lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000] (rev 02)
0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 01)
0000:02:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
0000:02:06.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
0000:02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Thanks for your report!

Have you tried this with the latest Edgy kernel?

[Karianne Fog Heen (simira)]

May be a duplicate of this one: #65042 ?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/65042

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