Trouble Mounting microSD card [SOLVED]
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Trouble Mounting microSD card [SOLVED]
So Ive been trying to load some music on my phones SD card and i cant seem to get the card to mount. Ive tried mounting it after a shut down and still nothing. any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
What did you do? Can you outline the steps? Any error messages you got?
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Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
I assume you plug the card into a reader on your computer? There's 3 sorts of card and 3 sorts of reader, nine ways you can connect physically, but 3 of those 9 don't work.
An XC card won't work in a HC slot.
An XC card won't work in a SD slot.
An HC card won't work in a SD slot.
It doesn't help the unsuspecting novice that all three are physically compatible. The type of card will be marked on it. The type of slot might be marked, or you might have to look it up in the machine's manual, or get an external slot that definitely is compatible with your card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... mory_cards
There's a similar situation with CD, DVD and BR disks...
A BR disk won't work in a DVD drive.
A BR disk won't work in a CD drive.
A DVD disk won't work in a CD drive.
An XC card won't work in a HC slot.
An XC card won't work in a SD slot.
An HC card won't work in a SD slot.
It doesn't help the unsuspecting novice that all three are physically compatible. The type of card will be marked on it. The type of slot might be marked, or you might have to look it up in the machine's manual, or get an external slot that definitely is compatible with your card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso ... mory_cards
There's a similar situation with CD, DVD and BR disks...
A BR disk won't work in a DVD drive.
A BR disk won't work in a CD drive.
A DVD disk won't work in a CD drive.
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
i don't have any error messages. it just doesn't show up on the desk top or in the file manager, its an internal reader, i read somewhere that older computers need the card installed before it will load it. so i rebooted the computer and it still does not show up on the file manager or on the desktop.
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
What size card? Small to medium cards are formatted to FAT. Larger cards are formatted to junkFAT. Sorry, the correct name is exFAT.
exFAT is proprietary to stop non Windows computers using it. Microsoft hope this will make Microsoft as obscenely profitable as Apple.
In most cases, you can format the card as FAT. Bill Gates will have to be satisfied with being only the second richest person on the planet.
exFAT is proprietary to stop non Windows computers using it. Microsoft hope this will make Microsoft as obscenely profitable as Apple.
In most cases, you can format the card as FAT. Bill Gates will have to be satisfied with being only the second richest person on the planet.
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
its a miroSD card used in a phone, 32gb slipped into a larger housing to fit into the computer port. i do think it is fat formated
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
Can you try any other distro from a live cd and check if the problem exists also on those?
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Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
Resorting to the command line is a pain. I inserted a USB disk then unmounted it. returned the following line for the unmounted disk. You can also use . See if lshw or lsblk -a shows the device for you.
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 0 disk
returned the following data.
/dev/sdb:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: f0 00 05 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ATA device, with non-removable media
Standards:
Likely used: 1
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 0 0
heads 0 0
sectors/track 0 0
--
Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 0 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 0 MBytes
cache/buffer size = unknown
Capabilities:
IORDY not likely
Cannot perform double-word IO
R/W multiple sector transfer: not supported
DMA: not supported
PIO: pio0
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lsblk -a
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lshw
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 0 disk
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sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: f0 00 05 00 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ATA device, with non-removable media
Standards:
Likely used: 1
Configuration:
Logical max current
cylinders 0 0
heads 0 0
sectors/track 0 0
--
Logical/Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
device size with M = 1024*1024: 0 MBytes
device size with M = 1000*1000: 0 MBytes
cache/buffer size = unknown
Capabilities:
IORDY not likely
Cannot perform double-word IO
R/W multiple sector transfer: not supported
DMA: not supported
PIO: pio0
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
"32GB slipped into a larger housing" So it can't be a microSD card, they only go up to 4GB.
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
I believe that micro sd cards over 2gb are considered to be sdhc. My laptops, 5 thinkpads and 2 hp's, all read my 16, 32 & 64gb micro sd(hc) cards in the full size sd adapter. I would expect the OP's card is either exfat or has a problem. I've run into a few cards that were formatted exfat as purchased. One can easily install exfat-fuse from the repository, or use gparted to blow away the exfat partition and re-format fat 32.
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Bob
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Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
One of my 32 GB microSD cards in an adaptor as shown in when mounted:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 29.1G 0 part /media/peter/TOSHIBA32GB
The same 32 GB microSD card in an adaptor as shown in when unmounted:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 29.1G 0 part
When the microSD card is not mounted, the Disks application shows SD Card Reader /dev/mmcblk0 with partition W95 FAT32.
The following discussion covers installing exFAT code then using Gparted and Disks.
https://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=12121.0
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lsblk -a
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 29.1G 0 part /media/peter/TOSHIBA32GB
The same 32 GB microSD card in an adaptor as shown in
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lsblk -a
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 29.1G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 29.1G 0 part
When the microSD card is not mounted, the Disks application shows SD Card Reader /dev/mmcblk0 with partition W95 FAT32.
The following discussion covers installing exFAT code then using Gparted and Disks.
https://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=12121.0
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
it mounted fine in 17 before i upgraded to 18orschiro wrote:Can you try any other distro from a live cd and check if the problem exists also on those?
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
Mute Ant wrote:"32GB slipped into a larger housing" So it can't be a microSD card, they only go up to 4GB.
yes it is a micro, and it has a full size adapter
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
SO i was thinking maybe it was a hardware driver issue, so i thought why don't i just install recent distro updates. I have them shut off. I had some issues awhile back with auto updates of previous distros so now i manually update. Anyway after this recent update, and a shutdown and fresh boot up, the card came up. I can even mount it without a restart. Sorry to waste all yalls time, i don't know why i didn't think of this before.
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
I'm glad I don't have your problem...I added a 32GB Sandisk microSDHC card to my phone...when I connected the phone to the computer I got..."cannot mount" so I clicked ok and about 6 seconds later the phone's HD opened double clicked the new microSDHC card which opened and I put my Music in...you can be lucky sometimes.robertgrant1203 wrote:So Ive been trying to load some music on my phones SD card and i cant seem to get the card to mount. Ive tried mounting it after a shut down and still nothing. any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
Be careful with microSD to SD adapters, they fail sometimes. Please try:robertgrant1203 wrote:yes it is a micro, and it has a full size adapterMute Ant wrote:"32GB slipped into a larger housing" So it can't be a microSD card, they only go up to 4GB.
- lsblk, then insert SD card, lsblk again and see if a new volume appears
- If a new volume appears, you can test it with e2fsck -v /dev/sdb1 (sdb1 or the new volume name that appears in your computer)
- Test the microSD card with another microSD to SD adapter in your computer
- Try to read the SD in another computer
After that we can see if the failure is in the adapter, in the card, in the computer or in the file system...
Re: Trouble Mounting microSD card
Indeed. I have trouble with one of mine, sometimes have to re-insert the card a couple of times before it works reliably.Arrababiski wrote:Be careful with microSD to SD adapters, they fail sometimes.
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