SD card slot doesn't mount card

[harkra]

Hallo,
i recently bought a new thinkpad L580 , that contains a SD card slot for SDXC cards(I hope this is right, i mean the cards that could be used in cell phones too)
when I injected the card first, mint 20.2 told me that the card could not be mounted. at the second try and later the card is not displayed anymore, but a beep occurs when injecting and removing. no difference concerning the format (FAT32, Exfat, NTFS or Ext4). when I use an SD-Adapter at another usb 3 slot, the card is recognised and mounted without any problem. using the "small" slot in windows, is working without problems with the same card. I would like to use this slot for backups and leave the card permanently in the slot.
do you need more information on the computer (inxi) ?
thanks is advance
harkra

[AndyMH]

I have the same problem with a T430 and the SD card from my camera. Doesn't work in the card reader slot, does work when plugged into a usb port via an adapter. Reformatted the card in mint, fat32, and then the camera insists on formatting it again. I just live with it.

From what you have said - you have plugged it in via a usb port and formatted it ntfs, fat32, ext4 and no difference - it still will not work?

With it plugged into a usb port, post the output from sudo parted --list, I want to check that it has a partition table on it.

[harkra]

I have the same problem with a T430 and the SD card from my camera. Doesn't work in the card reader slot, does work when plugged into a usb port via an adapter. Reformatted the card in mint, fat32, and then the camera insists on formatting it again. I just live with it.

From what you have said - you have plugged it in via a usb port and formatted it ntfs, fat32, ext4 and no difference - it still will not work?

With it plugged into a usb port, post the output from sudo parted --list, I want to check that it has a partition table on it.

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Modell: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  128GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: msdos
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende   Größe  Typ      Dateisystem  Flags
 1      1049kB  128GB  128GB  primary


Modell: LENSE30512GMSP34MEAT3TA (nvme)
Festplatte  /dev/nvme0n1:  512GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende   Größe  Dateisystem  Name  Flags
 1      17,4kB  134MB  134MB                     msftres
 2      135MB   659MB  523MB  ntfs               diag
 3      659MB   763MB  105MB  fat32              boot, esp
 4      763MB   266GB  265GB  ntfs               msftdata
 5      266GB   266GB  614MB  ntfs               versteckt, diag
 6      266GB   512GB  246GB  ext4

[AndyMH]

You have a msdos partition table so that is okay. The error I see is that parted is not reporting the filesystem type.

This is a 256GB SD card in the card reader slot in a T430:

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Model: SD SD256 (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 249GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system     Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB   105MB   primary   fat32           boot, esp
 2      106MB   99.1GB  99.0GB  extended
 5      107MB   38.9GB  38.8GB  logical   ext4
 6      38.9GB  99.1GB  60.2GB  logical   ntfs
 3      99.1GB  146GB   47.3GB  primary   fat32
 4      197GB   199GB   2097MB  primary   linux-swap(v1)

You can see the filesystem types, fat32, ntfs, etc.
On your card:

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Modell: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  128GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: msdos
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende   Größe  Typ      Dateisystem  Flags
 1      1049kB  128GB  128GB  primary

No filesystem reported. Try formatting the partition fat32, ntfs or ext4 and see if the parted output changes.

[harkra]

card is reformatted FAT32, still not recognised in slot.

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Modell: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
Festplatte  /dev/sda:  128GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: msdos
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende   Größe  Typ      Dateisystem  Flags
 1      1049kB  128GB  128GB  primary  fat32        LBA


Modell: LENSE30512GMSP34MEAT3TA (nvme)
Festplatte  /dev/nvme0n1:  512GB
Sektorgröße (logisch/physisch): 512B/512B
Partitionstabelle: gpt
Disk-Flags: 

Nummer  Anfang  Ende   Größe  Dateisystem  Name  Flags
 1      17,4kB  134MB  134MB                     msftres
 2      135MB   659MB  523MB  ntfs               diag
 3      659MB   763MB  105MB  fat32              boot, esp
 4      763MB   266GB  265GB  ntfs               msftdata
 5      266GB   266GB  614MB  ntfs               versteckt, diag
 6      266GB   512GB  246GB  ext4

[AndyMH]

I think the L580 will support sdxc, but to confirm, lspci in a terminal:

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...
02:00.0 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd PCIe SDXC/MMC Host Controller (rev 07)
...

this is what it shows for my T430.

Have you tried it with any other SD cards?

[harkra]

another fresh sd card, newly formated fat32, doesn't work either in this slot but with the usb adapter.
lspci results in

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 08)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 21)
00:15.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #2 (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #8 (rev f1)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
00:1d.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #11 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point LPC Controller/eSPI Controller (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (4) I219-V (rev 21)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Lenovo Device 0006
04:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)

[Larry78723]

On my T550, my SDcard reader shows as this:

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02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)

[AndyMH]

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04:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)

Doesn't support SDXC, nor does it list SDHC, looks like you are limited to low capacity SD cards, e.g. 16GB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card

[harkra]

whow,
that's somehow disappointing, not your answer, but that this kind of "old" piece of equipment was build in.
it will take some time for for me to find one of these sd cards but i will give it a try
for the meantime, thank you!
I will mark the topic as solved.
harkra

[harkra]

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04:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)

Doesn't support SDXC, nor does it list SDHC, looks like you are limited to low capacity SD cards, e.g. 16GB.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card

Sorry; one last question. the same slot works perfectly with the identical SDXC card under windows10. doesn't that speak against that it is not able to recognize this cards and sizes?

[AndyMH]

Quite right!
I suspect it's linux loading an older driver. There is probably someway of loading a later driver, but I don't know how Also odd that your L580 is a lot newer than my T430 but not providing the same functionality.

[AndyMH]

I did some googling:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/824804/ ... -16-04-lts
over four years old, and in this
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109231
it suggests that that particular bug in the first link has been fixed. The link also has other potential solutions.

[harkra]

thanks,
I found that post too, but did not understand much to be able to apply.
in the second link I tried

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sudo modprobe sdhci debug_quirks2="0x80000000"

in the terminal with no effect.
than there is mentioned that a patch should be applied. I have no idea how to do this?

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Jean-Luc Malet 2020-07-30 17:03:29 UTC
try this patch :

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-o2micro.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-o2micro.c
index 19944b004..1d8938a68 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-o2micro.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-pci-o2micro.c
@@ -681,7 +681,6 @@ static const struct sdhci_ops sdhci_pci_o2_ops = {
 const struct sdhci_pci_fixes sdhci_o2 = {
        .probe = sdhci_pci_o2_probe,
        .quirks = SDHCI_QUIRK_NO_ENDATTR_IN_NOPDESC,
-       .quirks2 = SDHCI_QUIRK2_CLEAR_TRANSFERMODE_REG_BEFORE_CMD,
        .probe_slot = sdhci_pci_o2_probe_slot,
 #ifdef CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
        .resume = sdhci_pci_o2_resume,


this fixed my issue on yoga 900 that have the same controler

[ricardogroetaers]

Unfortunately several Linux do not have drivers to allow slot or drive card reader recognizing more current SDCARDs (SDHC, SDXC, for example).

The tip is to buy a complete set (card + adapters) of the same manufacturer.
It usually works well.

[AndyMH]

I have no idea how to do this?

Unfortunately neither do I , maybe someone else.