Hardware: Acer Ferrari 1000 AMD Turion Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Memory Card Reader How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert an SD card 2. Nothing happens Actual results: No action Expected results: When a card is inserted, a nautilus window appears listing the contents of the memory card Additional info: udevmonitor yielded no result.
Can you provide the output of 'dmesg'? I want to see if the kernel detected anything. Cheers, Don
Created attachment 469182 [details] acer-ferrari.dmesg.output
Thanks Vasiliy for the dmesg output. I have a question. Are the 'memory cards' formatted? I see this in the log: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. Vendor: Generic Model: Flash Disk Rev: 8.07 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 1978368 512-byte hdwr sectors (1013 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdb: 1978368 512-byte hdwr sectors (1013 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: unknown partition table > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete SELinux: initialized (dev sdb, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts This shows me, the kernel could not find a partition table, therefore it didn't know what type of filesystem was on the memory card and couldn't mount it. I am not sure if userspace is supposed to prompt the user and ask if the disk should be formatted or not. But that seems to be the problem. Thoughts? Cheers, Don
I see. The cards we use are all formatted and work on other card readers in other machines. They are usable and have a few files on them. We have also tried basically all SD cards in our possession but making sure they work in other machines first.
Interesting. Ok. Well perhaps the card reader is reading the partition table incorrectly. I have an Acer Ferrari in my possesion and will poke around with a local card reader here. Cheers, Don
Heh, so I got around to poke at this and can duplicate the problem on RHEL-5. What is worse is that booting F14 (a 2.6.35 kernel) continues to demonstrate the same problem. Talking with some scsi folks indicates this could be a hardware problem if it can't read something as simple as the READ CAPACITY of the disk. I'll poke some more this week. Cheers, Don
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Someone pointed out to me that the hardware is so old it may not handle SD cards size 2GB or higher. What was the size of the card you were using? Cheers, Don
I just verified that a 1gig SD card works fine on the Acer Ferrari I have here. After talking with someone, the SD spec is only a signed 32 bits. Anything above 2gigs will not work. Can someone verify that is the only issue being seen? Then I can close this as not a bug. Cheers, Don
RHEL-5 deadline is approaching, any feedback? Cheers, Don
Closing this because I don't think it is a bug and haven't received any feedback on the suggestion I made. Cheers, Don