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How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Thread Started on Nov 20, 2011, 9:54am »

I just installed Saline and really like it, but I can't get my card reader working :'(

I have the Lian Li card reader CR-36:
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/pro....=32&ss_index=79

It's cover says it is supported by 2.4x and 2.6x kernels. USB slot of card reader is working, but when I plugin a memory card nothing happens (I would expect that it is shown as removeable media on desktop).

Any Ideas or Hints?

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #1 on Nov 20, 2011, 11:04am »

If you try Gigolo in the system menu it might be listed there.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #2 on Nov 20, 2011, 11:35am »

Nov 20, 2011, 9:54am, klaus wrote:

I just installed Saline and really like it, but I can't get my card reader working :'(

For removable media to show up it must be checked in Applications>Settings>Desktop>Icons Tab. Have you looked in your Thunar File Manager? It may need to be mounted.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #3 on Nov 21, 2011, 1:35pm »

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For removable media to show up it must be checked in Applications>Settings>Desktop>Icons Tab. Have you looked in your Thunar File Manager? It may need to be mounted.

Removeable media is checked in the Icons Tab. I have here the dmesg dump after I plugged in a card, maybe you can see whats wrong:

[ 7.562765] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 7.563463] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9744 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 7.564207] scsi 10:0:0:1: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9744 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 7.564954] scsi 10:0:0:2: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9744 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 7.565705] scsi 10:0:0:3: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9744 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 7.566451] scsi 10:0:0:4: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 9744 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 7.567260] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 7.567627] sd 10:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 7.567975] sd 10:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [ 7.568677] sd 10:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 [ 7.569034] sd 10:0:0:4: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 [ 7.587128] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 7.588903] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 7.591148] sd 10:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 7.592645] sd 10:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 7.594516] sd 10:0:0:4: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 33.571114] wlan0: direct probe to AP c0:25:06:37:12:b8 (try 1) [ 33.575817] wlan0: direct probe responded [ 33.575821] wlan0: authenticate with AP c0:25:06:37:12:b8 (try 1) [ 33.577748] wlan0: authenticated [ 33.577767] wlan0: associate with AP c0:25:06:37:12:b8 (try 1) [ 33.581195] wlan0: RX AssocResp from c0:25:06:37:12:b8 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) [ 33.581199] wlan0: associated [ 33.581470] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [ 33.594537] padlock: VIA PadLock not detected. [ 44.315287] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [ 518.812100] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] 64000 512-byte logical blocks: (32.7 MB/31.2 MiB) [ 518.813218] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 518.815709] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 518.815713] sdc: sdc1

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #4 on Nov 21, 2011, 2:02pm »

That output looks perfect. Looking at the drive lettering though, its possible you have the USB port in use while trying to read an SDCard? I know on some models you cannot do this as they both use the USB interface for communicating to the motherboard.

You should try manually mounting the disk through the command line, according to your output its being loaded into /dev/sdc so to try mounting do this:

Get a root terminal, either open from accessories menu or use the su command.
mkdir /home/USERNAME/cardreader
mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /home/USERNAME/cardreader

Replace USERNAME with the username of your system, these commands assume that the dmesg output is the same as posted. Namely this section here:

[ 518.812100] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] 64000 512-byte logical blocks: (32.7 MB/31.2 MiB)
[ 518.813218] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 518.815709] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 518.815713] sdc: sdc1

If you change the way your drives are plugged in or what is plugged in sdc will probably change to sdb.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #5 on Nov 21, 2011, 4:14pm »

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mkdir /home/USERNAME/cardreader
mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /home/USERNAME/cardreade

Okay, I've done that - only difference: I've created a different directory and tried to mount to this one /media/cardreader/xdc because usb sticks also get mounted to this directory.

That fails (mount command seems to hang and does not return). dmesg says:

[ 5366.552395] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] 64000 512-byte logical blocks: (32.7 MB/31.2 MiB) [ 5366.553512] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5366.556005] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 5366.556009] sdc: sdc1 [ 5510.180409] INFO: task hald-addon-stor:2134 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 5510.180413] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 5510.180416] hald-addon-st D f4d73070 0 2134 1792 0x00000000 [ 5510.180422] f4d91540 00000082 00000282 f4d73070 00000000 c141d100 c141d100 c14186ac [ 5510.180428] f4d916fc c3008100 00000000 00000000 f4d4fea4 f561b180 f4d73190 f4d73070 [ 5510.180434] c30036ac f4d916fc 00135fbb fffffff5 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 5510.180440] Call Trace: [ 5510.180449] [<c126dde7>] ? __mutex_lock_common+0xe8/0x13b [ 5510.180453] [<c126de49>] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xf/0x11 [ 5510.180457] [<c126deda>] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24 [ 5510.180459] [<c126deda>] ? mutex_lock+0x17/0x24 [ 5510.180464] [<c10d2873>] ? __blkdev_get+0x6d/0x2c7 [ 5510.180467] [<c10d2b34>] ? blkdev_open+0x60/0x8b [ 5510.180472] [<c10b1e37>] ? __dentry_open+0x156/0x246 [ 5510.180476] [<c10b1fb8>] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x29/0x3c [ 5510.180479] [<c10d2ad4>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0x8b [ 5510.180484] [<c10bc050>] ? do_filp_open+0x43f/0x802 [ 5510.180489] [<c10c3d6d>] ? alloc_fd+0x52/0xb7 [ 5510.180493] [<c10b1bef>] ? do_sys_open+0x4c/0xdf [ 5510.180496] [<c10b1cc6>] ? sys_open+0x1e/0x23 [ 5510.180501] [<c10030fb>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 [ 5510.180509] INFO: task udisks-daemon:2764 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 5510.180511] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 5510.180514] udisks-daemon D f7cea9d8 0 2764 2763 0x00000000 [ 5510.180518] f657fb40 00000082 00000000 f7cea9d8 00000000 c141d100 c141d100 c14186ac [ 5510.180524] f657fcfc c3208100 00000002 00000019 00000000 f5f67c18 c10bf867 00100100 [ 5510.180530] c32036ac f657fcfc 00135fc0 f4cc1c00 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 5510.180535] Call Trace: [ 5510.180555] [<f7cea9d8>] ? scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd+0x2a/0xd0 [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180560] [<c10bf867>] ? pollwake+0x0/0x65 [ 5510.180566] [<c126d9a1>] ? schedule_timeout+0x20/0xb0 [ 5510.180570] [<c1128deb>] ? blk_peek_request+0xa8/0x150 [ 5510.180580] [<f7cea3d4>] ? scsi_request_fn+0x3c1/0x47a [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180584] [<c126d8aa>] ? wait_for_common+0xa4/0x100 [ 5510.180590] [<c102d500>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x8 [ 5510.180595] [<c112c061>] ? blk_execute_rq+0x8b/0xb2 [ 5510.180599] [<c112bf3c>] ? blk_end_sync_rq+0x0/0x23 [ 5510.180603] [<c112203f>] ? elv_set_request+0x14/0x22 [ 5510.180607] [<c112923e>] ? get_request+0x1b0/0x25b [ 5510.180610] [<c1129784>] ? get_request_wait+0x1a/0x146 [ 5510.180619] [<f7ceb18f>] ? scsi_execute+0xce/0x126 [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180627] [<f7ceb241>] ? scsi_execute_req+0x5a/0x81 [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180635] [<f7ceb2b8>] ? scsi_test_unit_ready+0x50/0xcc [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180641] [<f7f415df>] ? sd_media_changed+0xd3/0x16d [sd_mod] [ 5510.180647] [<c10d1e08>] ? check_disk_change+0x16/0x3e [ 5510.180652] [<f7f4188a>] ? sd_open+0xc2/0x14a [sd_mod] [ 5510.180656] [<c10d2a15>] ? __blkdev_get+0x20f/0x2c7 [ 5510.180659] [<c10d2b34>] ? blkdev_open+0x60/0x8b [ 5510.180663] [<c10b1e37>] ? __dentry_open+0x156/0x246 [ 5510.180667] [<c10b1fb8>] ? nameidata_to_filp+0x29/0x3c [ 5510.180670] [<c10d2ad4>] ? blkdev_open+0x0/0x8b [ 5510.180673] [<c10bc050>] ? do_filp_open+0x43f/0x802 [ 5510.180681] [<f7ce67e0>] ? ioctl_internal_command+0x4a/0x125 [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180689] [<f7ce5125>] ? scsi_device_put+0x21/0x2e [scsi_mod] [ 5510.180694] [<f7f40a9c>] ? scsi_disk_put+0x22/0x2e [sd_mod] [ 5510.180698] [<c10c3d6d>] ? alloc_fd+0x52/0xb7 [ 5510.180702] [<c10b1bef>] ? do_sys_open+0x4c/0xdf [ 5510.180705] [<c10b1cc6>] ? sys_open+0x1e/0x23 [ 5510.180709] [<c10030fb>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 [ 5546.222413] sd 10:0:0:1: timing out command, waited 180s [ 5546.222423] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Unhandled sense code [ 5546.222427] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 5546.222432] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [ 5546.222439] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Add. Sense: Data phase error [ 5546.222445] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 f9 80 00 00 08 00 [ 5546.222458] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 63872 [ 5546.222463] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 7984

I've indeed attached a usb stick to the computer. However not into the cardreader USB slot but another slot connected to a mainboard internal connector.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #6 on Nov 21, 2011, 4:19pm »

USB Stick and Cardreader use the same input, it is all USB to the computer. Unplug the stick.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #7 on Nov 21, 2011, 4:48pm »

Unfortunately this doesn't help.

I unplugged the USB stick and rebooted. Plugged in the XD card and tried
mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/cardreader/xdc

But the call blocks and does not return.
dmesg shows many errors

[ 1204.726850] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] 64000 512-byte logical blocks: (32.7 MB/31.2 MiB) [ 1204.728010] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 1204.730216] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 1204.730220] sdc: sdc1 [ 1384.381431] sd 10:0:0:1: timing out command, waited 180s [ 1384.381440] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Unhandled sense code [ 1384.381442] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 1384.381446] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [ 1384.381451] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] Add. Sense: Data phase error [ 1384.381456] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdc] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 f9 80 00 00 08 00 [ 1384.381465] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 63872 [ 1384.381469] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 7984

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #8 on Nov 21, 2011, 4:53pm »

Oh, wait. Now I've waited for the mount command a VERY long time. It finally returns and doing an ls for
/media/cardreader/xdc
shows a folder which is on XD card.

If I cd to the directory it takes again a VERY long time until the call return.

Is there a way I can check if the card has some errors in file system?

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #9 on Nov 21, 2011, 5:27pm »

Nov 21, 2011, 4:53pm, klaus wrote:

If you are wondering about the time, this is normal. I have opened my wife's camera card to copy from and it does take a long time. There is a disk usage analyzer in Application>System that might help.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #10 on Nov 22, 2011, 12:44am »

These messages aren't normal, and seem to indicate that the card you are trying to read has a corrupt file system or is starting to go bad:

[ 5546.222458] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 63872
[ 5546.222463] Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 7984

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #11 on Nov 22, 2011, 10:35am »

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okay, but it really took about 3 minutes or something like that.

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It's a quite old XD card (bought back in 2002 I think) having 32MB only. Okay, yes, old crap

But I plugged the card into my windows cardreader and performed a check with search for sector defects enabled. This succeeded. However I will get a SD card from a collegue and will try this one.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #12 on Nov 22, 2011, 12:18pm »

[quote author=klaus board=hardware thread=429 post=4634 time=1321976135]
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okay, but it really took about 3 minutes or something like that.

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Don't expect a newer card to speed things up, sorry, SD cards are slow.

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Re: How To get Lian Li Card Reader working
« Reply #13 on Dec 18, 2011, 2:17pm »

A short update: I tested some SD cards. SD cards above 1GB work as expected.

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