Memory Card Help

[joshklewis]

I switched to Ubuntu 9.10 yesterday from Windows Vista. I am having a few issues with learning how to do things.

One problem that is a rather major one considering my occupation is my laptop not reading my memory card from my camera when I put it in the card reader. It is a built in SD card reader. Do I have to get drivers for it or something?

The memory card is a MS Pro Duo plugged into the SD card reader through an adapter.

[coopstah13]

how do you know it isn't reading it?

open terminal and run this code

sudo fdisk -l

post result before and after you plug in the SD card

[joshklewis]

Before plugging in the SD Card:

joshua@joshua-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf0000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       18753   150633441   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           18754       19457     5654880    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           18754       19457     5654848+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

After plugging in the SD card:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf0000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       18753   150633441   83  Linux
/dev/sda2           18754       19457     5654880    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           18754       19457     5654848+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

What I don't understand is if I put my mini sd from my cellphone into the adapter and plug it in, it works just fine. In fact it autoruns and opens the folder with the files from the SD card.

If I plug in my MS Pro Duo card using the adapter, it does nothing.

[nmset]

Can you plug the gard in and post the output of :

hal-find-by-capability --capabilty storage
hal-find-by-capability --capabilty volume
hal-find-by-capability --capabilty block

(I don't know if Ubuntu is still using HAL or not !)

You may also restart the haldaemon and insert the card again. I once had to to this to be able to mount my USB key.
And you may lastly launch halevt, which would monitor such events and take default actions in all runlevels.

[joshklewis]

I have not done what you asked yet, but I have an update. When plugging a regular SD card in, it works fine. When using a mini sd card with an adapter, it works fine.

The only problem is using a MS Pro Duo with an adapter to make it fit the SD slot on the computer.