Comment 35 for bug 366478

Tks to all who contributed. For me it was a BIOS issue - my ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader has run happily in Win7 for years but was a complete no show under Xubuntu 12.10 x64. I added usb_storage to my /etc/modules file and in my Phoenix Award BIOS I had to set 'USB Storage Mode' to Disabled. I have no idea what that setting really does but I can now boot with an SD Card in the reader, or without, and can hot plug quite happily. Works perfectly :)