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Hi,

I'm running Linuxmint 14 (32-bit). The SD card auto-mounts on insertion, to /media/<username>/<uuid>. However, it is not detected as a removable drive (flag must be set to 0?). This is problematic because I have some software that will only write a security key to a removable drive and there is no way to ignore the requirement.

Does anyone know why this is the case and how I might go about fixing it (I'm still a bit newbish when it comes to linux, so detailed instructions would be much appreciated).

Thanks.

Any ideas?

My problem is similar. The reader implemented in my brand new HP notebook does not see the sd card if I use Mint 64 Nadia but reads perfectly with Windows. Both OS are on two different HD. It had never happened with other notebooks on which was mounted Mint 14. I guess could be due to a missing driver or something in the Bios. But I explored the bios carefully and did not find anything. Point out that the sd card is read perfectly if I put in a USB external reader. I ask for help

also seen this issue with a SD card, - works just fine in a usb_external reader,
just not with the one built into the laptop.

changing to a higher version of Mint did nothing, so I'm, still using the external reader ..
haven't tried Mint 14 or 15, as they won't run on my non_pae laptop.

Please re-read what the OP said.

Your problems have nothing in common: your card-reader is probably using either an "exotic" OEM or Windows-only firmware so it is not managed by native kernel drivers.

The OP has a working card-reader and his problem is that the inserted card is seen as a fixed drive and not as a removable media...
@mistert: can you paste here the content of your /etc/fstab ?

eanfrid wrote:@mistert: can you paste here the content of your /etc/fstab ?

Thanks for comprehending my issue : )

I can probably dig up my fstab but I don't think there is any reference to the SD card there because LM only auto-mounts the card when I insert it so I think the mount entry is probably written temporarily to another location. There is a flag in a file somewhere (0 or 1) which indicates whether the drive is removeable, however this is written by a process that is unknown to me. I'll check out the fstab anyway, see if there's anything noteworthy in there to post here.

There's nothing in my fstab related to the SD card and I'm not sure how and where the auto-mount happens.