How to mount xD-Picture Cards?

[Th3Professor]

How do you mount 'em?

Thanks!

[Th3Professor]

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[Th3Professor]

[bump]

I could clarify... actually, I'll be a little more generic... where in /dev could I possibly find the device that I'd use for mounting one of those picture cards (the card that saves photos on a digital camera)?

Thanks!

EDIT:
Update... dmesg | tail -n 20 has the "xD" card listed:

[188648.720960] tifm_core: SmartMedia/xD card detected in socket 0:0
[188648.904889] tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:0
[188649.595371] tifm_core: SmartMedia/xD card detected in socket 0:0
[188649.595457] tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:0
[188649.662241] tifm_core: SmartMedia/xD card detected in socket 0:0

(It's listed multiple times possibly because I have inserted the card into the laptop and removed it more than once in testing it out.)

EDIT 2:
The fdisk list doesn't show the card.
(sudo fdisk -l)
I've installed "ivman" to try automounting media, though it isn't working.
(sudo /etc/init.d/ivman start)
I've also tried modprobe, also no luck.
(sudo modprobe tifm_sd)

[zeller]

Bump. I am having the same problem and need this resolved asap for work related issues. I am even getting the same dmesg as op only my socket is 0:2 instead of 0:0. All else is same.

Can anyone help please!?

[Th3Professor]

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[fyo]

Could you give the output for:

$ lspci

and

$ pccardctl status

[Th3Professor]

Could you give the output for:

$ lspci

and

$ pccardctl status

Sure thing...

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
05:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
0c:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0c:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0c:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0c:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

There's the:

0c:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

in that lspci list.

pccardctl status (with and without a card in the slot)

Socket 0:
  no card

[fyo]

OK, for that card reader others have expressed success with the following combo:

sudo modprobe tifm_7xx1
sudo modprobe tifm_core
sudo modprobe tifm_sd

where the last one is the same you tried earlier... They're all part of the same driver collection (for the TI PCIxx12 controller), so you probably need them all.

[Th3Professor]

OK, for that card reader others have expressed success with the following combo:

sudo modprobe tifm_7xx1
sudo modprobe tifm_core
sudo modprobe tifm_sd

where the last one is the same you tried earlier... They're all part of the same driver collection (for the TI PCIxx12 controller), so you probably need them all.

Thanks for the info... I went ahead and tried it.

After doing the modprobe (w/ sudo) on all 3 of those I put the card in and...

...nothing happened.

I checked the "computer" window (shows CD/DVD and Filesystem folders) and there was nothing there.

Is there a specific device in /dev that I need to mount?

(I did another "pccardctl status" after the modprobes and re-inserting the card and it came up with "Socket 0: no card.")

The odd thing is, dmesg shows the card:
$ dmesg | grep xD

[36165.972062] tifm_core: SmartMedia/xD card detected in socket 0:0

After I removed the card, a fresh dmesg showed it removed:

[36535.581301] tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:0

[autocrosser]

I use a Olympus with the xD card format & I bought a Dazzle card reader a couple of years ago--It works very well & mounts the cards as xx.x MB Media.

http://reviews.cnet.com/flash-memory...-30477792.html

The CircuitCity reviews are very negative, but I've used mine for several years without a problem--I think this is one that works better in Linux