On Friday, April 20, 2012 12:41:27 AM Erik Christiansen did opine:

> On 19.04.12 12:25, gene heskett wrote:
> > Ahh, but which sd* is it:  From dmesg when I plug in the reader:
> [snipped uninformative dmesg output]
> 
> Having a usb card reader with a small SD card in it, lying on the desk,
> I've just plugged it in for comparison with your tribulations. On ubuntu
> 10.04, I get:
> 
> a) "mount" shows:
>    /dev/sde1 on /media/6B36-55C9 type vfat \
>   
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask
> =0077,utf8=1,flush)
> 
> b) dmesg includes the device as well:
>    [ 1478.412932] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
>    [ 1478.424578] sd 4:0:0:2: [sde] 60800 512-byte logical blocks: (31.1
>    MB/29.6 MiB)
>    [ 1478.427254] sd 4:0:0:2: [sde] Write Protect is off
>    [ 1478.427266] sd 4:0:0:2: [sde] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
>    [ 1478.427273] sd 4:0:0:2: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
>    [ 1478.427551] sd 4:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
>    [ 1478.439869] sd 4:0:0:2: ioctl_internal_command return code =
>    8070000
>    [ 1478.439879]    : Sense Key : Hardware Error [current]
>    [ 1478.439888]    : Add. Sense: No additional sense information
>    [ 1478.446987] sd 4:0:0:2: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
>    [ 1478.447006]  sde:
>    [ 1478.447151] sd 4:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
>    [ 1478.447502] sd 4:0:0:3: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
>    [ 1478.450015]  sde1
> 
> In my experience (sample size == 2), 50% of card readers work with
> linux. ;) The rest are only good for recovering a connector or two for
> other uses. Fortunately they're fairly cheap, but in case the real ratio
> of duds is much higher, the "AV Labs 70 in 1 usb 2.0 Card Reader &
> Writer" works for me.
> 
> Hope you can find one that's not made by Murphy.
> 
This one is labeled vivitar.  But it has not yet been tested as I took the 
SDHC card back to Wallies & got that $13 back.

Thanks Erik.

Cheers, Gene
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