[Charlug] Memory card reader stopped working

[Lawrence Teo]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> I have a memory card reader plugged into the USB port. I took some pictures
> today and I'm trying to download them. The last time I tried was before
> upgrading. What used to happen was that I stick the card in the reader and
> a /dev/sda1 appears. Then I run a script which mounts it, reads the pictures,
> and unmounts it. Now I stick the card in the reader and nothing happens. I
> tried "modprobe usb_storage", but no sda1 appeared. How do I fix it?

Is your /dev/sda1 file still there (type "ls -l /dev/sda1" in a
shell to check)? If it's not there, try running these commands as
root to see if it re-creates your /dev/sda1:

mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
chmod 660 /dev/sda1

Also, after you plug in your memory card reader, type "dmesg".. does
the end of the dmesg output indicate that the memory card reader is
detected? You should see some USB-related messages.

Hope it helps,
Lawrence


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Lawrence Teo
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