Re: [SLUG] Something broke

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Jan 14 2007 - 22:49:13 EST


Chuck Hast wrote:
> Folks,
> I have a PC card that is a SD card reader, it was working just fine on my
> SuSE 10.1 laptop. But just recently I went to pull some pictures off of the
> card and I could not get it to open the card. Used to it would open the
> thing on insersion, but now no joy.
>
> The card reader is a PCMCIA card and it is built for SD cards only. One
> point, I can pull the USB card reader out and plug it in and the card will
> be opened no questions asked.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that I did some patches and upgrades the
> other day and possibly broke something.
>
> I observe that when I plug the device into the PC card the /var/log/message
> file does show that the card is recognized and indeed it is assigned as
> device hde. But I can not mount it.
>
> I had just bought the pcmcia card so as to not have to carry the USB
> reader and cable around with me, but here I am back to it again, and
> I really hate USB connectors they always look like something ready to
> get hit and broke by something...
>
>

Are you *sure* you don't have automount or something similar running? It
just seems you're having a lot of trouble mounting devices.

Paul

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Paul M. Foster
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