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.
--
Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply)
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/
Reply to: