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mouni

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 31

[SOLVED] Multimedia Card Reader

Greetings,

I am newbie around here and newbie with ArchLinux, i just  finished check the wiki and guide for beginners and i don't find anything. How i can mount a Micro SD card?

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader

Thank you.

Last edited by mouni (2011-07-30 20:54:46)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia Card Reader

I'm assuming the card reader is working.
If you prefer to mount the card by hand, insert the card and type 'dmesg' in the terminal. Look at the lines at the bottom:

...
[ 2121.616557] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device number 2 using ehci_hcd
[ 2121.805278] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 2121.805490] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 2121.806304] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 2121.806310] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 2121.834752] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 2122.844687] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     CREATIVE ZEN Stone        1061 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 2122.845250] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 2122.848010] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 483840 2048-byte logical blocks: (990 MB/945 MiB)
[ 2122.848598] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2122.848605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00
[ 2122.848610] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2122.850485] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 483840 2048-byte logical blocks: (990 MB/945 MiB)
[ 2122.851102] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2122.852349]  sdb: sdb1
[ 2122.853983] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 483840 2048-byte logical blocks: (990 MB/945 MiB)
[ 2122.854605] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2122.854614] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

In this case the device's name is sdb (it may be a different name in your case). I know that the device I'm mountings has a partition , so I mount the first partition of the device:

[karol@black ~]$ mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/
[karol@black ~]$ ls /media/usb/
total 14M
drwxr-xr-x 2 8,0K 2007-12-10  ACM Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 8,0K 2010-01-20  ccMixter
drwxr-xr-x 3 8,0K 03-04 19:51 Interpol
drwxr-xr-x 7 8,0K 2008-11-03  jamendo
drwxr-xr-x 5 8,0K 2009-09-06  John Coltrane
...

You can try mounting the whole device (see: /dev/sdb, not sdb1 here)

[karol@black ~]$ mount /dev/sdb /media/usb/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

which works in some cases, but not for the mp3 player I used in this example :-)

litemotiv

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Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia Card Reader

Moved to Newbie Corner.

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mouni

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia Card Reader

Thank you, karol. Was very clear.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Multimedia Card Reader

Thank you, karol. Was very clear.

You're welcome. If it's working for you, please mark this topic as solved.