Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:45:58 +0700
Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> dijo:
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>Camaleón wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:29:28 +0700, Ken Heard wrote:
>>
>>> I have a Lenovo R61 laptop which has a built-in SD card slot. The
>>> operating system is Lenny.
>>>
>>> Ever since I bought this laptop in May 2008 I have been able to
>>> mount in it SDHC cards from my Canon 60D digital camera. The
>>> relevant line in fstab is and has always been:
>>>
>>> /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/sd vfat user,noauto,noatime
>>> 0 0
>>
>> If you're using a DE, I would let it to mount external devices
>> automatically, that is, by commenting (#) the above line
>> in /etc/fstab. Then, as soon as you attache the card it should be
>> recognized, detected and mounted under /media.
>
>I did as you suggested -- commented out that line in fstab -- and
>inserted the card. It was not recognized, detected or mounted under
>media. The DE I am using is KDE 3.5.10.
>
>>> Within the last three hours however -- through no conscious
>>> intervention on my part -- I have been unable to mount an SDHC card
>>> installed in this slot. The command "mount sd" returns the
>>> following:
>>>
>>> mount: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist
>>
>> And it may be true. Run "/sbin/blkid".
>
>It is true; I had already discovered that that device does not now
>exist, although it must have existed more than three hours ago.
>
>>> I will consequently be grateful for advice to help me find out what
>>> is wrong and how to fix it.
>>
>> Open a terminal, run "dmesg | tail" and then insert the card to see
>> what's going on.
>
>I ran that "dmesg|tail" both before and after installing the SDHC card
>On all occasions that command reported nothing.
This is beginning to sound like hardware failure. The SD card reader in
my T61 failed shortly after the three year warranty ended.
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