Card Reader not working with SD Cards

phunni · 2011-08-27 16:46:37

I have an inbuilt Card reader in my desktop which supports many different types of cards. When I put an SD card in it, however, nothing seems to happen - at least as far as the OS is concerned. A green light appears on the reader itself, but no new disk becomes available to the system.

dmesg shows no new messages. I have tried different cards with the same result. I also plugged a USB drive into the same card reader and it worked perfectly so it's not simply that the card reader doesn't work - although I suppose it could be partly broken...

What can I try to investigate and fix this?

MoonSwan · 2011-08-27 17:28:31

Does the wiki give you any hints? What does lspci and lsusb say? Try the "everything" log perhaps?

phunni · 2011-08-27 17:41:58

I've already trawled through the forums with little success. lspci doesn't seem to show anything useful, but lsusb shows:

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader

Which at least tell me what it is...

gazj · 2011-08-27 20:18:26

Is the card over 2gb, my reader can only read cards upto 2gb

sd cards < 2gb
sdhc cards > 2gb

Well I think thats the case.

Last edited by gazj (2011-08-27 20:19:44)

phunni · 2011-08-30 17:38:35

The card is over 2gb - but I'm pretty sure it has been fine with that in the past. Unfortunately I do not have a < 2gb card to test this theory with...

gazj · 2011-08-30 18:04:42

Similar issues at Linux Mint. They have no solution as yet, but it might be worth watching.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=59405

gazj · 2011-08-30 18:09:19

This may also help, you may be able to find out what your reader supports.

http://www.hjreggel.net/cardspeed/info-controller.html

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#1 2011-08-27 16:46:37

Card Reader not working with SD Cards

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