SDHC card not recognized

[Cullen Walsh]

I have a cheapo internal card reader that worked fine in Intrepid. After upgrade to Jaunty RC 64 bit, I just tried to use it to read an 8GB Sandisk card. Upon inserting the card, the status light on the reader lit up, but Ubuntu did not mount it. This was confirmed by the lack of /dev/sd[c...], since i have working /dev/sda and /dev/sdb hard drives. After inserting a Cruzer USB disk into the card reader's USB port, it mounted as /dev/sdc, and recognised the readers available (SD and a few other formats) by mounting them at /dev/sd[d-g]. However, it is still not recognising that a card is inserted. In nautilus, the readers are visible by their respective port type (SD, SmartMedia, etc)

In Intrepid, the various readers were recognised and displayed in nautilus as they currently do regardless of if a card was inserted. This is also the windows behaviour.

Based on my inquiries in IRC, I have attached the related messages from /var/log/messages and the output from "sudo lsusb -vvv"

[Cullen Walsh (ckwalsh)]

Also attaching lsusb output

[chross (chross33)]

Hi,
this is exactly what I'm experiencing. Cheap USB Card Reader (internal) [lsusb shows it as Genesys Logic, Inc.] and Jaunty: when cards (in my case I'm using CF cards) are inserted the status LED lights up, but no recognition happens. When I attach a USB memory stick to this very cardreader, the CF cards are recognized and writable as well.

NOTE: I was successfully using intrepid before.
NOTE2: both versions were amd64 bit ones

[Cullen Walsh (ckwalsh)]

Just to give an update, today I had the SD card plugged in and inserted a USB flash drive into another USB slot. The SD card was then detected and I could retrieve the contents. I'm away now and don't have a chance to do more testing, but it appears it is at least detecting the card now, albeit only under certain conditions.

[Cullen Walsh (ckwalsh)]

Just want to say that this is still an issue. Plugging the card into the reader does not cause Ubuntu to recognise it, though the reader does via status lights, however plugging in a USB stick to the USB port there causes it to be recognised.

[Omegamormegil (omegamormegil)]

I am experiencing the same problem with a Kingston SDHC card reader and when plugging in my Nokia N800 via USB cable. In Ubuntu 8.04, the SDHC cards are read correctly, and I am presented with a dialog asking me what application I want to use to view the media on the card. In Jaunty, upon plugging in the USB device the memory card is initially shown in the Nautilus side bar, but after clicking the icon, the icon vanishes and I cannot access the SDHC memory cards at all. I also tested this with the 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 RC3 kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ in Jaunty and experienced the same problems. Regular SD cards work correctly in both my N800 and my Kingston card reader in Ubuntu 9.04, and SDHC cards work fine in 8.04.3.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Could you please test and confirm this issue exists with the latest Karmic 9.10 Alpha development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information for Karmic to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 364420

Thanks in advance.

[Omegamormegil (omegamormegil)]

I can't reproduce this bug in Karmic Alpha 3. My SDHC cards are correctly read by Nautilus when using my USB SDHC card reader and when I'm accessing my N800 via USB cable. I tested a 8GB and 4GB card. So, it would appear to be fixed!

[Donald (donsmouse)]

I have an hp pavalion M9500F, with built in card readers,and i have a 16 GB Transcend SDHC card and it does not work with ubuntu 9.04 64 bit

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

pacco,

Please test against the latest Karmic 9.10 Alpha release - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic

[Donald (donsmouse)]

I Tested it on 9.10 and it works fine, thanks

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leann Ogasawara" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: [Bug 364420] Re: SDHC card not recognized

pacco,

Please test against the latest Karmic 9.10 Alpha release -
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic

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[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

I'm marking this bug Fix Released as the previous comments seem to indicate this is no longer an issue with Karmic. Thanks.

[Donald (donsmouse)]

Your Welcome
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leann Ogasawara" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:34:18 PM GMT +00:00 Monrovia
Subject: [Bug 364420] Re: SDHC card not recognized

I'm marking this bug Fix Released as the previous comments seem to
indicate this is no longer an issue with Karmic. Thanks.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Fix Released

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[matthius (matthieugiroux)]

Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: linux None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
UserGroups: