Few days ago I had no problem burning xbian on a SD card, today I've tried to do it again on a fresh card and Ubuntu refused to detect that I've inserted it. I thought that the new card may be faulty and I've checked the old one and my computer couldn't detect it either.
When I insert the card simply nothing happens, no new messages in dmesg, no new devices in /dev/, just like nothing happened.
I keep my system (16.04) up-to-date and its currently running kernel 4.4.0-43-generic
My laptop is Dell Lattitude E7440 with builtin O2 Micro SD card reader.
It may or may not be related to a problem I had with freezing docker. Someone on the internet suggested to run:
sudo dmsetup mknodes
This tool certainly has something to do with memory devices and although it helped with the docker it may have broken something with SD card reader.
Now some diagnostics:
$ uname -a
Linux e7440 4.4.0-43-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 12 13:48:03 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
,
$ lspci
...
03:00.0 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
SD Card is present int the slot.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 7,6G 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 38,1G 0 part /
└─sda6 8:6 0 420G 0 part /home
,
$ grep -iE "sdhci|mmc" /var/log/syslog
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.110590] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] (base 0xf8000000)
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.110592] PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] reserved in E820
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.814775] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.814778] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.829377] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: SDHCI controller found [1217:8520] (rev 1)
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.831379] mmc0: Unknown controller version (3). You may experience problems.
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.831393] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.831395] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vqmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:04:02 e7440 kernel: [ 0.837937] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:03:00.0] using ADMA
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.111881] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] (base 0xf8000000)
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.111884] PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] reserved in E820
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.815203] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.815204] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.830301] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: SDHCI controller found [1217:8520] (rev 1)
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.832340] mmc0: Unknown controller version (3). You may experience problems.
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.832354] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.832356] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vqmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:07:46 e7440 kernel: [ 0.838082] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:03:00.0] using ADMA
Oct 16 20:09:53 e7440 kernel: [ 132.501886] mmc0: Card removed during transfer!
Oct 16 20:09:53 e7440 kernel: [ 132.501889] mmc0: Resetting controller.
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.111302] PCI: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] (base 0xf8000000)
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.111305] PCI: MMCONFIG at [mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff] reserved in E820
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.827957] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.827959] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.844377] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: SDHCI controller found [1217:8520] (rev 1)
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.846390] mmc0: Unknown controller version (3). You may experience problems.
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.846405] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.846407] sdhci-pci 0000:03:00.0: No vqmmc regulator found
Oct 16 20:17:01 e7440 kernel: [ 0.849356] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:03:00.0] using ADMA
The mmc0: Unknown controller version (3). You may experience problems. was displayed even when the reader was working.
$ sudo dmsetup ls
No devices found
And
$ ls -l /dev | wc -l
reports same value before and after instering the card.
dmsetupcommand. If yes, it shouldn't make any difference. – solsTiCe Oct 16 '16 at 19:26