SOLVED: Re: SD card not being read from a card reader

["H.S." <hs.samix@gmail.com>]

H.S. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having trouble reading an SD card from a card reader (USB). The 
> card works okay in the digital camera (Canon A520) and I can read and 
> delete images from the card is the camera is directly connected to the 
> computer via a USB cable (use digikam for the operations).
<SNIP>
> logical block 0
> Dec  4 20:05:11 localhost kernel:  unable to read partition table
> Dec  4 20:05:11 localhost kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a 
> disc in the drive.
> Dec  4 20:05:13 localhost last message repeated 2 times
>
>
>
> Looks like something is wrong the formatting of the card perhaps? I 


It turns out that that SD card and another SD card were not mounting on 
two different computers (one Debian the other running XP). So that 
indicated a hardware problem. One of the pins in the USB card reader 
that touches the contacts on the SD card had bent out of shape and 
wasn't touching the card's contacts anymore. A pair of tweezers helped 
to un-bend that pin and all is well now.


->HS