SD Card refuses to be read.

SGW Ryan · 2021-04-11 01:45:17

Hello! I am fairly new to arch Linux, so I'm not the best at this. I was trying to mount my 128 GB Sandisk ImageMate PRO, but nothing shows up when I plug it in. When I run lsblk, I get

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
|-sda1        8:1    0    16M  0 part 
`-sda2        8:2    0 931.5G  0 part 
mmcblk0     179:0    0 119.1G  0 disk 
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk 
|-nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   512M  0 part /boot
|-nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    16G  0 part [SWAP]
`-nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   222G  0 part /

mmcblk0 is my SD card. When I run sudo fdisk -l, i get.

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: KBG30ZMV256G TOSHIBA                    
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: D0179EA8-06C1-DC40-8872-F51F3BAECB1B

Device            Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1     2048   1050623   1048576  512M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2  1050624  34605055  33554432   16G Linux swap
/dev/nvme0n1p3 34605056 500118158 465513103  222G Linux filesystem


Disk /dev/sda: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: WDC  WDBNCE0010P
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: DBA580D2-87FB-4E9E-9A42-49066A234A97

Device     Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1   2048      34815      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda2  34816 1953523711 1953488896 931.5G Microsoft basic data

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

seth · 2021-04-11 08:02:04

It's apparently not partitioned - is it supposed to be?
Does it have a (known) filesystem? ("lsblk -f") - what filesystem is it supposed to have?

Also, sanity check:

pacman -Qs linux
uname -a

SGW Ryan · 2021-04-11 19:25:15

seth wrote:

It's apparently not partitioned - is it supposed to be?
Does it have a (known) filesystem? ("lsblk -f") - what filesystem is it supposed to have?
Also, sanity check:
pacman -Qs linux
uname -a

It was supposed to be for my Raspberry Pi, It was formated FAT32, but then I ran it through the Raspberry Pi Flasher, and it refuses to show up on windows.
Also here is the output o fthose commands:
pacman -Qs linux:

local/alsa-lib 1.2.4-3
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-utils 1.2.4-2
    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Utilities
local/apparmor 3.0.1-1
    Mandatory Access Control (MAC) using Linux Security Module (LSM)
local/archlinux-keyring 20210110-1
    Arch Linux PGP keyring
local/avahi 0.8+15+ge8a3dd0-3
    Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour
local/base 2-2
    Minimal package set to define a basic Arch Linux installation
local/brltty 6.3-1
    Braille display driver for Linux/Unix
local/bumblebee 3.2.1-21
    NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux through VirtualGL
local/efibootmgr 17-2
    Linux user-space application to modify the EFI Boot Manager
local/filesystem 2021.01.19-1
    Base Arch Linux files
local/iptables 1:1.8.7-1
    Linux kernel packet control tool (using legacy interface)
local/keyutils 1.6.3-1
    Linux Key Management Utilities
local/kmod 28-1
    Linux kernel module management tools and library
local/lib32-alsa-lib 1.2.4-2
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support (32 bit)
local/lib32-keyutils 1.6.3-1
    Linux Key Management Utilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-libxshmfence 1.3-2
    a library that exposes a event API on top of Linux futexes (32-bit)
local/lib32-util-linux 2.36.2-1
    Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux (32-bit)
local/libaio 0.3.112-2
    The Linux-native asynchronous I/O facility (aio) library
local/libiec61883 1.2.0-6
    A higher level API for streaming DV, MPEG-2 and audio over Linux IEEE 1394
local/libimobiledevice 1.3.0-3
    Library that talks the protocols to support iPhone and iPod Touch devices on
    Linux
local/libraw1394 2.1.2-3
    Provides an API to the Linux IEEE1394 (FireWire) driver
local/liburing 2.0-1
    Linux-native io_uring I/O access library
local/libva 2.11.0-1
    Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux
local/libxshmfence 1.3-2
    a library that exposes a event API on top of Linux futexes
local/linux 5.11.12.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules
local/linux-api-headers 5.10.13-1
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/linux-firmware 20210315.3568f96-1
    Firmware files for Linux
local/mdadm 4.1-2
    A tool for managing/monitoring Linux md device arrays, also known as
    Software RAID
local/ndctl 71.1-1
    Utility library for managing the libnvdimm (non-volatile memory device)
    sub-system in the Linux kernel
local/nvidia 460.67-6
    NVIDIA drivers for linux
local/pacman-mirrorlist 20210405-1
    Arch Linux mirror list for use by pacman
local/python-distro 1.5.0-3
    Linux OS platform information API
local/python-evdev 1.4.0-1
    Python bindings for the Linux input subsystem
local/squashfs-tools 4.4-2
    Tools for squashfs, a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.
local/tilda 1.5.4-1
    A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
local/util-linux 2.36.2-1
    Miscellaneous system utilities for Linux
local/util-linux-libs 2.36.2-1
    util-linux runtime libraries
local/v4l-utils 1.20.0-1
    Userspace tools and conversion library for Video 4 Linux

uname -a:

Linux arch 5.11.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 07 Apr 2021 21:48:28 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

seth · 2021-04-11 20:17:26

The running kernel is the installed one, so that's not the problem.

lsblk -f
sudo file -s /dev/mmcblk0

foobat · 2021-04-12 01:26:06

Raspberry Pi imager is unable to recognize an unpartioned sdcard. This is an known issue. You can try balena etcher instead.

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#1 2021-04-11 01:45:17

SD Card refuses to be read.

#2 2021-04-11 08:02:04

Re: SD Card refuses to be read.

#3 2021-04-11 19:25:15

Re: SD Card refuses to be read.

#4 2021-04-11 20:17:26

Re: SD Card refuses to be read.

#5 2021-04-12 01:26:06

Re: SD Card refuses to be read.

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