HOWTO: Make your TI internal card reader work for you

**holyowned** · July 2nd, 2007

How do I backup?? I coded lspci, and this is the tail of my output:

06:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 10)
06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
06:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc Unknown device 0551 (rev 01)

No Mass Storage Device.......
I coded setpci, using the numbers from the cardbus bridge, nothing. I tried it with the SD card numbers, nothing. Now, I have the following in my dmesg output:

[17188348.800000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17189582.608000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17189612.008000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17190746.688000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17192008.372000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1

How do I back up?
TIA

**holyowned** · July 2nd, 2007

How do I backup?? I coded lspci, and this is the tail of my output:

06:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 10)
06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
06:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc Unknown device 0551 (rev 01)

No Mass Storage Device.......
I coded setpci, using the numbers from the cardbus bridge, nothing. I tried it with the SD card numbers, nothing. Now, I have the following in my dmesg output:

[17188348.800000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17189582.608000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17189612.008000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17190746.688000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1
[17192008.372000] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1

How do I back up?
TIA

**chrisrx** · July 3rd, 2007

I can't get this to work for me on a toshiba sattelite pro a120, possibly because I don't have "mass storage controller listed.

lspci gives me

Code:

03:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
03:0b.3 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

So I've tried

Code:

sudo setpci -s 03:0b.3 4c.b=0x02

but it doesn't change anything, and dmesg doesn't show any recognition of entering an sd card.

**jimmigoo** · September 12th, 2007

Hi....

I've followed all the instruction without loading modules in /etc/modules,
The card reader works very well, everytime I boot the machine....
I've got a Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller on
Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO L1310G,
I've tried a SD card

Thanks a lot!!

Bye,

jim

**ikey_d** · September 15th, 2007

Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD) on a Gateway MX3210 running Feisty... SD/MMC works fine with READ & WRITE capabilties... UBUNTU ROCKS!!! Thanks for the howto, BIG HELP!

**Tobba25** · October 12th, 2007

Ok, I need my XD card to work... how far are they on making that wish come true?

**phen** · November 26th, 2007

hello all,

what about gutsy? an sd card mounts, but as soon as you try to open a file, this error appears, the card unmounts and mounts again.

Code:

 [ 1343.904000] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p1, logical block 769853
[ 1343.904000] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p1
[ 1344.124000] tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:0
[ 1345.084000] mmcblk0: mmc0:39ba SD512 500224KiB 
[ 1345.084000]  mmcblk0: p1

shall I report a bug? is there a simple trick? thanks for help?

**frasene** · June 22nd, 2010

Hi,

I have an Compaq nx9105 and Ubuntu 10.04 and I have the same problem with the internal SD Card Reader...

Code:

lspci | grep Texas

02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1620 PC Card Controller (rev 01)
02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments PCI1620 Firmware Loading Function (rev 01)

When I put an 512 MO SD Card or other, no disk is mounted...

I put in the /etc/modules :

Code:

tifm_7xx1
tifm_core
tifm_sd

I reboot the computer... No card mounted after insertion...

I try :

Code:

sudo setpci -s 02:04.0 4c.b=0x02
sudo setpci -s 02:04.1 4c.b=0x02
sudo setpci -s 02:04.2 4c.b=0x02

No change...

In the first post, the setpci was applied on the number mm:nn.o associated with <Mass Storage Controller> but there is no corresponding line in the lspci results...

Do you have an idea ?

Even if this computer is old, it is surprising to see how Ubuntu is a very good system for it (3D Desktop, speed with only 512 Mo of RAM...) !

Thanks

**greenblob** · October 15th, 2011

Hi all,
I'm running 11.04 natty.

I have an internal Samsung card reader. I can't get any details from nautilus, but I know it's a Samsung.

Nautilus recognises it, and all of it's ports, but is unable to open cards through it, or recognise the fact that there is a card present.

I'm able to give more info if you tell me how.

Does anybody know how I can get this working please?

Thanks very much
Luke