256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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MCJosiah
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256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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So it turns out that my little Dell Inspirion 3000 can run Ubuntu Studio 19.04 but now I have a really big problem.

Ubuntu Studio 19.04 isn't detecting my 256GB MicroSD properly. I found it. It comes up in computer:/// when I do cntr-l but it labeled as "SC265" & when I try too mount it it says something along the line of "Can mount/Not mountable".

I need to have it cause it has all my VSTs, Projects, & Soundkits on it & my laptop only has a 32GB EMMC drive, & I would hate to have to keep a flash drive in my laptop cause my laptop only has 2 USB ports & I would like to use one for my MIDI keyboard & another for my audio interface.

Can anyone help me with this problem?
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

Post by merlyn »

If you open a terminal and type :

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lsblk
it will show all the disks (block devices) connected.
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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So I decided to reinstall Lubuntu 18.04.3 instead cause it's more lighter weight & I've been watching alot of tutorials & doing alot of playing around & I think I wanna build the OS on my laptop for music production from the ground up. Like after I get this SD Card problem fixed(If I do, if not I'm getting a new laptop), I'm gonna install the low-latency kernel, KX Studio stuff, & Ubuntu Studio stuff.

One major problem I'm dealing with again is Lubuntu 18.04.3 is not detecting my SD Card reader. I tried to install the drivers for Realtek & it came up in the terminal but still couldn't be seen in the file manager but when I restarted & did the lsblk command the SD Card reader was gone again. Here's the latest screenshot(I added as a file, still a newbie here, lol!!!)

If I can't get the SD Card reader to work then I'm probably gonna sell my laptop & get a different one. Like a Dell Latitude or something like that.
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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I'm surprised the card doesn't appear. lsblk shows the card, not the card reader, so the card would have to be in.

You can see if the card reader appears on the USB bus with :

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lsusb
To copy text from a terminal select it with the mouse then use Ctrl+Alt+c. Then paste it here in a code box.
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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Well I went though one more OS change to Ubuntu-Mate cause I found it a bit better than Lubuntu. After typing the command you gave me, it does show that Ubuntu-Mate(I have 18.04 LTS) detects the card reader. It's just not detecting my SD card. But here's what it shows:

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 mcjosiah@mcjosiah-Inspiron-3180:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:5658 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0cf3:e005 Atheros Communications, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
mcjosiah@mcjosiah-Inspiron-3180:~$ 
 
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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Hi! Is the SD Card formatted? If so, what is the file system? Chances are that you might need to install a package to enable support for the filesystem your SD card is formatted with.
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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I think it's exFat but I'm not sure. It was in my smartphone before my laptop & I think my smartphone was the thing that originally formatted it. The smartphone it was in before my laptop was a Samsung Galaxy S8 Active.
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Re: 256GB Micro SD Card not deteted properly on Ubuntu Studio 19.04

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If it's exfat do this (had exactly the same problem with a sd card from an android phone):

$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
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