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Error mounting SD card when returning from suspend

I have a 128 GB SD card that I use for permanent storage in my Lenovo Thinkpad X1. I've mounted it in /etc/fstab with this line: UUID=37733366-e936-41df-983a-f084352b3a5b /home/kristian/sd128gb ...
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SD Card Reader Not working - Ubuntu 20.04

I have Ubuntu 20.04, freshly installed. It is not able to access any SD Cards if used with the SD Card Adapter. I tried multiple adapters, and tested the same with other computers as well. The SD Card ...
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How to power on internal SD card reader from disk utility

I have a Dell laptop (Inspiron-3521) which have an SD card slot. I used this slot to install some images for my raspberry pi. I wanted to test something and using the Ubuntu disk utility I powered it ...
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How to access contents of an old Android SD card?

I have an SD card with lots of important personal documents on it. I've used it with an Android phone as an 'Adoptable Storage' so it showed up as internal storage on that device, which, according to ...
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How do I mount SD Card to Ubuntu 18.04 on my HP Envy 13t?

The card slot works fine on windows. sudo fdisk -l doesn't show any SD card. I checked by giving the command tail -f /var/log/syslog and inserting SD card again, nothing happened. Output from lspci(...
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SD Card Reader RTS525A - Unassigned class [ff00]

I can't get my SD Card reader working on XPS 13 9360 running Ubuntu 17.10 kernel 4.13.0 lspci: Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) I ...
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SD card unmounts during suspend or hibernate

I have a laptop with only 32GB SSD space (Lenovo 100S). That's not very much, so when I installed Ubuntu 15.10, I set a 64GB SD card as the /home partition. My problem is, every time I wake the ...
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Using Grub on hard disk to boot live SD card

I have a laptop running Ubuntu MATE 15.10, and said laptop has an internal media-card reader. I would like to be able to use that media-card reader to boot a liveCD installed on an SD card. ...
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SD card reader not detected on Asus Zenbook, Ubuntu 14.04

I am trying to get my internal SD Card reader working on Ubuntu. I have only found a general solution and that was to reboot the computer with an SD Card inserted, which didn't work. I'm thinking it ...
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SD card write speed not as advertised, on 14.04 at least

I bought a new SD card and the claimed performance is a long way from my benchmark. Is there something I can do improve the transfer speed when working with this SD card? Information on the disk: $ ...
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SD card content not showing up in Ubuntu

I have burned OS image (.img) into a new SD card (Sandisk 16GB) use LibreELEC USB-SD creator tool on Ubuntu laptop. I assume I don't need to format SD card before writing. Then I tried browse SD card ...
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Focal - Exclude disk from update-grub

My new laptop has a built-in card reader. Unlike previous laptops, the card reader shows as a standard USB disk (/dev/sdb) rather than a dedicated PCIe device (/dev/mmcblk). As such, GRUB seems to ...
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SD card wont automatically mount

When plugging in my SD card, I get a message saying "not authorized to perform operation." I can mount it using sudo, but I can't create files on it in nautilus unless I'm running it as root. sudo ...
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Ubuntu MATE 18.04 SD integrated card reader doesn't work in Lenovo N22

I have Lenovo N22 with integrated micro SD reader. It works under Windows, but doesn't recognize any card in Ubuntu MATE 18.04. Additional informations: SD reader works under Windows Card is ...
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SD card problem - can't find a way to format it and test it

I have this SanDisk Ultra 32GB HC I - class 10 SD card that I have been using on my android phone as means to install and run more stuff on my phone. I have been using it for around 4 months and ...
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Cannot mount SD card

I have Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit and I have used a new 16GB SD card for a couple of weeks that suddenly is not recognizable anymore. When doing sudo fdisk -l and then sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1/ /media/...
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Lenovo 100S-14IBR MicroSD doesn't show

EDIT 08-07-17 I'll try to rephrase the question. How can a device appear in a 'Live Session' and completely disappear during a normal boot? Getting frustrated here. Mostly seamless 16.04LTS ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga SD card not detected

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14 and nautilus doesn't detect my SD card with the built in SD car slot. The card is a SanDisk microSDXC UHS-l card with adapter. output of lspci -v ... 02:00.0 SD Host ...
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Problems with copying data to large SD card

A few days ago I got a ThinkPad T460 and until now everything worked fine ans I'm really happy. To extend my SSD, I bought a 256GB SD Card by Kingston (this here). But when copying data there is a ...
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SD Card Slot not recognized 14.04

I hope somone can help me out. I tried some solutions but nothing has fixed my problems. My SD Card Slot is not recognized by Ubuntu. It also doesnt listed as a storage. I dont know how i should fix ...
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SD card won't mount (or even be recognized) after resuming from suspend

My 32GB SD card (FAT32) does not have any problem mounting perfectly if my laptop (running Ubuntu 14.04) never goes into suspend (after I close its lid). But once I re-open the lid, retyping my ...
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The disk drive for /media/SDbackup is not ready yet or not present

On an Acer Aspire One 522 netbook, the boot process stalls with the message: "The disk drive for /media/SDbackup is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait, press S to skip or M for manual ...
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SD card is recognized but can't open it: “can't read superblock”

(Almost the same question but the solution proposed therein do not solve my problem) So I can mount the micro SD card but when I click on it I get: Error mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 at /media/me/NIKON ...
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Xubuntu - SD card is only recognized if plugged in before boot

I have a Samsung Chromebook 3 which was EOL. I removed the write protect screw, flashed full UEFI firmware and installed Gallium OS, which worked well. I wanted something more recent so I installed ...
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Set SD Card as internal storage

I would like to change the default storage from eMMC to SD Card in Ubuntu. I have a microSD card and a slot for this SD card on my devide (Jetson nano but not the original carrier board). My default ...
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Cannot create partition table on sd card

I cannot create a partition table ( nor msdos, nor GPT ) on my new 64 GB PNY micro sd-card. I tried: - using GParted ( in Kubuntu 20.04 and in Mint 20.3 ) - fdisk in the terminal ( Kubuntu ) - ...
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Raspberry Pi 400 - Ubuntu 21.04 appears to have broken 2 microSD cards

Briefly - tried flashing the 21.04 RPi 400 Desktop image to a 128GB microSD card with the stock Pi Imager on macOS last week. Installed ok, and worked for two reboots, upon which I saw a terminal ...
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Ubuntu can't read SD Card

I have Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed, but apparently it can't read the SD Card although I have a reader in my laptop. I've tried running lsusb and it shows the card reader, but sudo lsblk -f doesnt show ...
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Sandisk Extreme 128gb XC is not recognised

I'm trying to mount 128gb Sandisk Extreme and so far I failed. The SD card is not recognised (not listed by sudo parted-ls). What is more, the different card is fully recognised and automounted (not ...
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Ubuntu Installation from SD card always fails

I have tried installing versions 14.04, 17.10 and 18.04 on my desktop which has a Windows 8.1 installation already, as a dual boot system. If I burn the installation image to an SD/microSD card and ...
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fail create ext4 filesystem on micro sd card

I have a micro SD card that is plugged into an SD adapter. Using gparted, I create an ext4 partition and formatted to ext3. When the process is complete, I get a warning icon assoc with that partition ...
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SDHC not mounting

I have a 16GB SDHC i card from transcend and nothing happens when I put it into the embedded sd card reader. I ran dmesg and got: [ 12.005989] mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware cmd interrupt. [ ...
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Unable to format SD Card (Unable to Format it and locked in read only mode)

I had a problem on my SD Card. When I try to format it both from system and from Gparted Partition Editor I can't finish the operation for some errors. I also tryed on windows but he says to me that ...
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Trying to recover an SD card

This is an SD card that doesn't show up when I insert it into my Ubuntu (Actually Xubuntu 16.04 LTS). The problem is specific to this SD card, I can insert another card which is fine. Both are micro ...
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My Acer TravelMate B113 doesn't detect sd cards

I want to transfer files onto an SD card, but when I put it in my TravelMate's slot, it doesn't show up in the file explorer. When I type sudo fdisk -l, I only get information about /dev/sda*, so I ...
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Realtek 5287 PCIe controller for memory card reader not reading all cards

A new System 76 Lemur laptop has a Realtek 5287 PCIe cardreader. It reads some SD cards but not all. Not to say which it reads or not. System 76 says they are aware of the problem, but don't know how ...
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Why some sd cards are not detected at all?

I have an Toshiba Qosmio F50-125 laptop and it have built in sd card reader, and i am running Xubuntu 16.04 and i have a problem some of sd cards are not detected at all, not even in Gparted. Actually ...
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Filesystem type: MSDOS memory card

I have a 32GB SD card, it's file system is MSDOS and I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I am unable to delete anything from this card, even I can't format it. Please someone help me out.
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How to give permissions to user www-data (apache+php) to access media/user/sd card slot?

I have a php script that runs from apache2 call that needs to read files in a SD card. The SD card appears mounted in /media/user/name of SD card partition. I tried to read this answer Default file ...
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How do I mount SD Card on BQ Aquaris M10 FHD Frieza?

How do I mount SD Card on BQ Aquaris M10 FHD Frieza I just received my new BQ m10 tablet and when I first inserted the microSD card, it was recognized and I was able to copy some files out to it via ...
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How to change default download location to an SD card?

I put Ubuntu on a chromebook through crouton but the chromebook's memory is very small, so I have a SD card in the chromebook to expand the memory. Is there a way to make the default location for ...
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Ubuntu no longer detects SD cards

My card reader used to work fine but now it doesn't work, Here is my dmesg output: [ 290.581992] rtsx_usb_sdmmc rtsx_usb_sdmmc.0.auto: card claims to support voltages below defined range [ 292....
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SD Card limits or faults

I have 3 new 32gb SD cards (Class 10, xc I). I put 20.3gb of data, including images, videos, ISOs, a DVD, PDFs, debs, tar balls on them. But after writing them all, some files are missing, and some ...
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Booting off an SD if Ubuntu doesn't natively recognise card

I want to set up my PC to boot Ubuntu off an SD card. My concern is, Ubuntu couldn't access my SD card until I used the solution posted here. Will this be a problem if I boot off the reader (assuming ...
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Edit files on written SD Card (on Ubuntu laptop, edit boot files for Raspberry Pi)

I have just set up my Raspberry Pi and get a no signal when it is attached through a HDMI cable. I've seen that this is not uncommon and requires you to enter hdmi_force_hotplug=1 and hdmi_safe=1 in ...
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How to change user of SD card from Root

I just recently got a Chromebook and now have Linux installed on it, and I am trying to get steam games onto my sd card. I initially had the issue in that it would not install anything on a drive with ...
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SD Card, Destination is read-only

I can no longer write to my SD card using the GUI (Files 3.10.1). If I use the command line I can successfully write to the SD card, but using the GUI gives me "Destination is read-only". Using the ...
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32GB sd card recognised as 2TB

I am running ubuntu 14.10 , i have a sd card of size 32GB [class 4].When i try to read it in Gparted ,it take immense amount of time and result in showing it as 2TB[2TerraByte].Same goes with sudo ...
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PCMCIA Card SD Reader not recognized

I have a Dell 620 running Ubuntu 14.04 (all updates done, fresh install), and an old "Four in One PCMCIA CardReader" plugged into the PCMCDI slot of the Dell machine. I have a working SD Card in the ...
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Lubuntu - SD card not showing up!

Using the latest version of Lubuntu (x64). Just popped in the card - doesn't show up anywhere. No idea how I'd go about fixing this, as the other distros I've tried have all had no issues detecting ...
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