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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

SD card not read/won't mount

I have a Kingston MicroSD card w/adapter that I pop into a USB card reader (which reads several other SD cards with no prob), and it just won't work on my Arch box. Here's the output when it's plugged in:

└─> dmesg | tail
sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 8:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
scsi 8:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Generic  USB SM Reader    1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 8:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
scsi 8:0:0:3: Direct-Access     Generic  USB MS Reader    1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
sd 8:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
sd 8:0:0:1: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 8:0:0:3: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 8:0:0:2: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
usb-storage: device scan complete

It's not listed in fdisk -l, just my sda through sdd drives as usual. I looked in /dev and found (from the dmesg output) the sde through sdh, and I tried mounting each one to /media/test, and I got this:

└─> sudo mount /dev/sde /media/test/
mount: /dev/sde is not a valid block device
┌─[ 01/21/10 10:13:55 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo mount /dev/sdf /media/test/
mount: /dev/sdf: unknown device
┌─[ 01/21/10 10:13:55 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo mount /dev/sdg /media/test/
mount: /dev/sdg: unknown device
┌─[ 01/21/10 10:13:55 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo mount /dev/sdh /media/test/
mount: /dev/sdh: unknown device

I'm guessing my SD card is /dev/sde, but what do I do about the "is not a valid block device" ?? This card works fine in Windows 7.