Re: [tlug] SD Card not appearing on desktop. Again.

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Darren, Godwin,

Thank you for responding.


Darren Cook wrote:
> Are you still able to boot into the old system where the SD card works?
> If so, try that, insert an SD card, and then do lsmod,
The bad news is that my old installation is having Nvidia troubles, so 
it's hard to check on that one.

The good news is that my girlfriend's laptop mounts the SD cards just 
fine. So I can look at the difference on that machine.

I put in an SD card on her computer, and ran lsmod. It's a little long, 
so it's hard for the human eye to pick out the similarities and differences.

My lsmod shows:
sd_mod                 23428  5
scsi_mod              142348  5 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
usbcore               134280  7 
usbhid,wacom,usb_storage,libusual,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
usbhid                 26592  0
usb_storage            72256  0

Her lsmod shows:
sd_mod                 22656  2
usb_storage            75072  1
scsi_mod              144648  3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
usbcore               134912  4 usb_storage,libusual,ohci_hcd

But as far as I can tell, hers doesn't have a usbhid entry, and I do. 
Maybe that's a problem?

I tried dmesg on her machine:
[17179759.160000] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
[17179759.172000] sdd: Write Protect is off
[17179759.172000] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17179759.172000] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179759.196000] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
[17179759.208000] sdd: Write Protect is off
[17179759.208000] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17179759.208000] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179759.208000]  sdd: sdd1
[17179760.308000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT 
filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

And on mine:
[  853.106254] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
[  853.106876] sdd: Write Protect is off
[  853.106881] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[  853.106887] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[  853.108623] SCSI device sdd: 1935360 512-byte hdwr sectors (991 MB)
[  853.109246] sdd: Write Protect is off
[  853.109250] sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[  853.109254] sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
[  853.109257]  sdd: sdd1

The only difference is the last warning she gets, about FAT file systems.

And yet, she gets a nice icon on her desktop, and I can't access the 
card at all.

Is there anything else I can test on her machine to see what's making 
icons happen for her?

Godwin said:
> Maybe I'm just an old dinosaur, but what is wrong with mounting an
> external device using the keyboard anyway?
Nothing wrong with it. Just not how I want to do it. And I don't want to 
let a malfunction dictate my choices.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kernel 2.6.20-14-generic
Pentium D Dual Core Processor