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Re: SD Card not being seen



On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:37:47 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:

> When I plug the SD card in, the reader shows an orange light, showing
> its detected something, but (for instance) running fdisk -l does not
> show it, and I cannot see any devices appearing in /dev (such as
> /dev/sd[cdef]1) to indicated the card is seen.
> 
> Am I missing something, like a modprobe that is needed? or is it likely
> that the hardware doesn't work (I have never used it before, despite
> being several years old).

yes, as others indicated, 'dmesg' will tell you why. 

Let me guess, the reader doesn't support SDHC (since it's several years 
old) but your are inserting a SDHC card? Try inserting a SD card which is 
less than 2G first and see what you get.

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