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patelvrajn

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From: Jersey City, New Jersey

Registered: 2014-01-18

Posts: 49

[SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

Hey Guys,

I need help reading a SD Card from Arch Linux. I recently just bought an All-In-One Media Dashboard that includes a SD card reader and installed onto my Arch Linux system and when I plugged it into my computer I ran into the following error:

Unable to mount 65 GB Volume

Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /run/media/vrajpatel/9C33-6BBD: Command-line `mount -t "exfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8,namecase=0,errors=remount-ro,umask=0077" "/dev/sdb1" "/run/media/vrajpatel/9C33-6BBD"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

I tried the following commands on terminal:

sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt

and it resulted in the following:

mount: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'

I then tried manually probing drivers like usb_storage and sd_mod but those did not solve the problem. In the midst, I upgrade Arch Linux using the usual pacman command and from past knowledge I know that modules and drivers are purged from the system until restart. However, even after updating, restarting, and typing those commands again, the same error continues to hinder me from accessing data from the SD card I am trying to read. Are there any solutions to fix the problem that I am experiencing?

Last edited by patelvrajn (2015-05-18 22:30:19)

dcdriving

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2015-01-20

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

Hi, have you installed exfat-utils? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=exfat-utils
edit: my bad.  See post #8.

Last edited by dcdriving (2015-05-18 21:38:41)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,804

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

I would suggest you choose a different, free format for it.

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dcdriving

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

@ewaller - I don't mean to hijack this thread, but is this not an open source implementation as it links to this.  Forgive my ignorance on this!

Edit:  I think I get it.  Sorry.

Last edited by dcdriving (2015-05-18 20:23:54)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

@ewaller - I don't mean to hijack this thread, but is this not an open source implementation as it links to this.  Forgive my ignorance on this!

Edit:  I think I get it.  Sorry.

Yeah, to be honest I had not even seen your post.  I was responding to the original poster.  But that is my point -- The SD Card Association has settled upon a proprietary, patent incumbered "Standard" and is requiring license fees.  I am not a staunch Free as in Freedom crusader.  I understand the need to keep certain things under wraps -- things, for example, that are required to meet electromagnetic compatibility compliance on software controlled radios.   But, for a file system?  Seriously?  Clearly they are being greedy or they really don't want us to use it.  Either way, forget it -- let them rot.

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patelvrajn

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From: Jersey City, New Jersey

Registered: 2014-01-18

Posts: 49

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

I just installed the exfat-utils drivers and restarted, the problem was not resolved. It still gives the same error.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

Have you bothered to read the documentation?
http://code.google.com/p/exfat/wiki/HOWTO

Moving to NC...

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Tarqi

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Registered: 2012-11-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

Use this.

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ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

I may have missed the boat on this one.  My impression was that there were not any workable solutions on Linux that were not proprietary.
I remain unsettled about the software patents.

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patelvrajn

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From: Jersey City, New Jersey

Registered: 2014-01-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to Mount: SD Card

Thank you for your help, ewaller, tarqi, and dcdriving. I am sorry jasonwryan but with all due respect, I found you a bit rude to me considering I did read the documentation and I was in a bit of a rush. Therefore, I mistakenly read as the installation for all the needed packages as complete when the internet timed out I didn't notice until I restarted. However, thank you for your help.

Last edited by patelvrajn (2015-05-18 22:28:39)