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coltoverson

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Registered: 2013-07-31

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SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

Hey all I'm an arch linux newbie, and I'm trying to get SD cards to mount using the built-in card reader in my laptop. When I plug in a card, nothing happens on the terminal screen. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

felipe

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Registered: 2013-06-29

Posts: 70

Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

"When I plug in a card, nothing happens on the terminal screen" XD.

remove the card and write

ls /dev/sd*

then plug the card and write again

ls /dev/sd*

do you see any difference between the results?
if yes just write:

mount /dev/<newdevice> /dev/mnt

if not, your built in card reader is not recognized.

Last edited by felipe (2013-08-01 01:32:57)

coltoverson

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Registered: 2013-07-31

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Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

Welp that worked. I was able to spot the difference and mount it. Usually when I plug in a flash drive or any media for that matter, the terminal screen tells me which device (sdd, etc.) is plugged in.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

Welp that worked. I was able to spot the difference and mount it. Usually when I plug in a flash drive or any media for that matter, the terminal screen tells me which device (sdd, etc.) is plugged in.

I am not sure where you have gotten the idea that there is going to be some kind of an announcement from the command line.  Maybe you are thinking of the system logs, which will tell you of the addition of new hardware.  If you are in the TTY, then if there are messages of a certain log level or above (or below... since 7 is debug and 1 is emerg) they will be pushed to the console if the machine is configured to do that.  So USB flash drives have no caching mode, so they are set to write through.  Sometimes this can be pushed to the console... maybe this is what you are thinking of.

Instead of using "ls /dev/sd*" you can otherwise use lsblk to see what block devices are present.  Or you can use lsusb to see if the device is being recognized.  The problem with using "ls /dev/sd*" is that SDCard don't always show up as a sd* device.  Depending on yur hardware, it may, but these days emmc devices will show up as /dev/mmc*.

frostering

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 8

Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

You can try this (taken from this forum):

sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan"

pedja

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Registered: 2014-02-24

Posts: 6

Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

Instaliing OpenSC package from oficial repository fix the problem for me.

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: SD Card Slot Not Working: Dell Latitude E6500

Another necrobump.

Closing

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