Hi again everyone,
I posted yesterday about my Lexar multi-card reader, and how I could not get linux to see the 3 slots. William Hooper suggested that I could pass an option to the scsi_mod module to make it probe all the LUNs on the reader, and so I added:
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=3
to my /etc/modules.conf (I found the answer on Linux Journal's website).
So now things move on a bit, and upon inserting my card-reader into the USB hub, all 3 slots are indeed detected, albeit, with delays, because the first 2 slots don't have cards in them, and the system waits to detect the medium. Anyway, after several seconds, /dev/sde is detected as my SD card. Now I can mount it, and use it thus:
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/sdcard
However, my ultimate goal is to be able to mount the device without having to look at /var/log/messages each time to figure out which device name was assigned to it. I have been using devlabel with my USB drive, and it works great! So I ran the following, to figure out the UUID of the SD card:
devlabel printid -d /dev/sde1
This is where things fail. For 45 seconds, nothing happens, and then devlabel comes back with nothing. Meanwhile I see in /var/log/messages:
kernel: sdc: Unit Not Ready, sense: kernel: Current 00:00: sense key Not Ready kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed. kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off kernel: sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0 kernel: unable to read partition table kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout kernel: sdd: Unit Not Ready, sense: kernel: Current 00:00: sense key Not Ready kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present kernel: sdd : READ CAPACITY failed. kernel: sdd : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present kernel: sdd : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. kernel: sdd: Write Protect is off kernel: sdd: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 kernel: I/O error: dev 08:30, sector 0 kernel: unable to read partition table kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
So, the probes aren't getting as far as /dev/sde. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what is wrong and how I can proceed from here?
