FC5: External USB Card Reader Problems

[walden_pond]

Hi,

I am trying to access photograph files through an external USB 2.0 card reader on my FC5 laptop. But I am unable to access the files.
UPDATE: This is a multi-card reader.

'hwbrowser' command tells me that I have three USB controllers (for the 3 USB drives):
ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller
ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1
ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2

Plugging the USB card reader with the memory card into one of the USB controllers does not lead to anything. After plugging it in, this is the output from 'dmesg':


usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB CF Reader Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SM Reader Rev: 1.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Vendor: Generic Model: USB MS Reader Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
scsi 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
scsi 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd


I removed it and tried putting it back and did all such things but to no avail.

After some time I noticed an error message in the 'dmesg' output:
usb 3-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11

A google on this error message told me that a lot of other distros (Ubuntu) also are having this problem.

Question:
How do I get the memory card reader working?

[walden_pond]

Update:

I changed the USB slot I was connecting to and now I don't see the error messages.

I still have no clue what the mount point should point to?

[walden_pond]

Created a mount point in /media and tried this in vain:

mount /dev/sda /media/card
mount: No medium found
mount /dev/sdb /media/card
mount: No medium found
mount /dev/sdc /media/card
mount: No medium found


What to mount?

Somebody had the same problem long time back, but the thread just died:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=67633

[ghostdawg]

What does command, 'lsmod' show for the device? Do you have the card reader Sim or whatever it's called loaded before mounting the device?

Just some thought.

[walden_pond]

That seems to be ok.

I had forgotten to mention that this was a multi-card reader. I updated my first post to reflect this.
In FC3 I understand that for multi-card readers, one had to recompile the kernel from this post:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=55318

[rappermas]

What are you running right now?

An easy way to do this is to make sure that Gnome's automount settings are correct.

Go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media.

Make sure that under the Storage tab, [Mount removable drives when hot-plugged], [Mount removable media when inserted], and [Browse removable media when inserted] are checked.

[walden_pond]

I am running KDE on FC5.

[walden_pond]

this is frustrating. :(

is this simple task just not possible in FC5? Do I have to go back to windoze?

[walden_pond]

hmmm...I don't know how to break this news......
the reason it wasn't working was because the CF card was loose and was not plugged in properly !

now that it is plugged in properly, things are working fine, FC5 not only recognized it but also auto mounted it and life looks good :)

the reason I failed to catch this problem was that, even when the CF card was not completely inserted in the card reader, on a windoze machine somehow the OS was detecting it. Since it had worked on a Windoze box I had assumed that there were no problems with the physical part of the card reader.

[gone_fishing]

the card will be be seen as sdc sdd or what ever, but do not try to mount the disk, mount it's partition, so
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/card should work (or whatever sdd,sde,sda)
also fdisk /dev/sdc and hit p to see partition table layout.