I have Mint 11 running on a desktop and a laptop. I've been trying to download some photos from an SD card to the laptop with no luck so far. There is a built-in SD card reader on my Lenovo G575 and that appears to be lifeless (though I'm pretty certain it has worked in the past, before I removed Windows7 dual boot and left Mint only) . I also have an All-in-one card reader, recognised as a ChipsBnk reader that works fine on the desktop, but if I plug it into the laptop it is recognised as long as I don't put the SD card into it, the indicator light on the reader starts to flash then stops in a second or so. If I run usb-devices in terminal with no card in the reader the reader is listed, with the card in all reference to the usb port is missing. (Might this be a power issue? It's the same on mains or battery power).
Could you tell me how to get the inbuilt reader to work?
Do you have any clues as to what I can do with the card reader.
Bob
Solved - Problems with card reader
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Solved - Problems with card reader
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Re: Problems with card reader
What file system is on the SD card, can it be read elsewhere?
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Re: Problems with card reader
I'm making some progress, I've got the inbuilt card reader working following this thread, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1797202
The All-in-one I continue to work on. It will read a 4 jpg files on a 32MB SD card formatted FAT32. It starts to read a CF card, MSDOS format but packs up after downloading about 9 jpg files of about 2.5GB each. By packs up I mean the power to the reader is shut off. A 4GB CF card doesn't finish opening the folders before power is cut off. All the above work OK on my LM11 desktop. I'm wondering if I should consider a powered USB hub to see if that helps
The All-in-one I continue to work on. It will read a 4 jpg files on a 32MB SD card formatted FAT32. It starts to read a CF card, MSDOS format but packs up after downloading about 9 jpg files of about 2.5GB each. By packs up I mean the power to the reader is shut off. A 4GB CF card doesn't finish opening the folders before power is cut off. All the above work OK on my LM11 desktop. I'm wondering if I should consider a powered USB hub to see if that helps
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Re: Solved - Problems with card reader
A usb Y cable seems to have sorted the problem. Not completely stable, but good enough to work with.
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