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Chiwawa · Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 4

I'm afraid I'm having a strange issue with my SD drive (or the SD card) under Puppeee. Today, I accidentially shut down Puppeee with a "soft" hardware shotdown while the SD drive was mounted. After booting Puppeee again, the SD drive is nowhere to be found. It's not showing up on the desktop, and Puppeee Drive Mounter, after "probing hardware", will not even start up.

- There seems to be no immediate problem with the SD drive, at least when I check and uncheck the "Enable Card Reader" box in Eee-control, Puppeee will tell me "Card reader enabled" respectively "Card Reader disabled".

- There seems to be no immediate problem with the SD card either, because it still shows up just fine under windows.

So now I'm stuck. Any ideas please how I can access SD cards again under Puppeee? Thanks!

PS: Oh, and I've just tried a different SD card and that doesn't work either, so it's definitely not about the card. I've also booted into Puppeee live (without saved settings) but that didn't help.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

When you hold down esc key on boot do you see the card?

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

Also check in the onboard device configuration in advanced in the bios F2 on boot.

Dave_B · Joined: 02 Aug 2010 Posts: 36 Location: Idaho, USA

I have a SD card in an IDE adapter on my laptop (I'm using it now). A while ago I had a similar problem and I found that the adapter had backed out of the connector on the motherboard. I plugged it back in and blocked it from backing out again with a small felt pad used to cushion chair legs.
Dave

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

is the sdcard in this folder /root/.pup_event/

headfound · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 330 Location: England

checking the bios is a good idea, you could also try a hard reset - some eee models have a small recessed button to do this, on mine (701sd) you have to hold the power button down for 10 seconds.

Chiwawa · Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 4

Thanks for all the replies. To sum up the solution, here's what I did:

Holding down the ESC key did show the device, as did running probedisk2.

# probedisk2
/dev/sda|drive|ATA SILICONMOTION SM
/dev/sdb|usbdrv|USB2.0 CardReader SD0

So I am now able to mount the drive again by running this:

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdcard

Remaining problem I have - when I put in an SD card, the SD drive would automatically show up as an icon on the desktop. Single click on the icon, and I'd have all the files available. And the drive would also be available to open files via any other application.

So now I have to mount the drive every time I start up Puppeee. I understand that it's probably possible to somehow mount it automatically (although I don't know how to do it yet), but actually I would be happy to restore everything to the convenient setup there was. Also, I'd be happy to find out why Puppeee lost the original setup in the first place, because if it happened once, then it likely to happen again, and then that's not really much better than having to mount manually every time I start up again.

Thanks again!

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3012 Location: Oregon

Have you tried menu/desktop/desktop drive icons manager and then click on "Tic box to erase then redraw and realign drive icons".
After that, restart x and see if all the drive icons show up.
As to mounting a drive/partition on bootup, you might try Starmount.

Chiwawa · Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 4

Chiwawa · Joined: 22 Jun 2011 Posts: 4

Ok, so I am slowly starting to understand.