SD Card Will Only Mount Once Per Boot

[Joseph Loo]

On 02/09/2011 03:01 PM, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> After Boot, I insert an SD Card into the reader. Shortly afterward, I
> see it mounted as a 1 GB Filesystem on my desktop. It is completely
> usable at that time.
> 
> I right click it and select Safely Remove. I then remove the card from
> the reader.
> 
> A bit later, I reinsert the card (or another one). Nothing happens, the
> card does not get mounted anywhere.
> 
> The card will not mount again until I boot the system. There might be
> something else that would restore it, but I have no idea what that would
> be. After I reboot, the above sequence can be repeated ... ONCE. After
> it is removed, it is unusable until the machine is rebooted.
> 
> There HAS to be something else that would work. I'd be happy with a
> manual way to mount / unmount it - ANYTHING is better than this. I've
> tried googling for these symptoms without help.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> ---Michael
> 
> 
Did you do an umount or an eject. I have found if you do an eject it can
be mounted and unmounted without any prolem.

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Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org