SD card could not be mounted in LEAP15

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Brand new, fresh install of Leap 15. Almost all is good except for the sd card reader. The cards were detected and mounted automatically in 42.2 & 42.3.

With 15.0 a card (I tried several) is detected, and I’m offered the usual choice of apps to read it, but when I select any option I get a red banner with the message “Could not mount the device”. The reader still works under Windows and worked fine in 42.3 just a couple of hours ago, so I suspect the new OS is the culprit.

**:~ #** lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 02)
00:13.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Integrated Sensor Hub (rev 21)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev f1)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev f1)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 21)
00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 61)
03:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0115 (rev 01)

A google search tells me that the RTS522x family of readers were problematic with linux in years gone by, so I’m surprised to have an issue now. Any thoughts?

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That should be

lsusb

And, your desktop environment is? KDE? GNOME? Other?
The first two both have tools to configure auto-mounting, since that’s what we’re talking about.

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Since the device is detected, perhaps worth seeing how it is enumerated

sudo fdisk -l

sudo blkid

Which file-system is it using? If exFAT for example, perhaps you need to add the required file-system support first?
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fuse-exfat

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Sorry: KDE

lsusb did not display any item that looked like a card reader to me. Did I miss something?

:~> lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bc2:5031 Seagate RSS LLC FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f3:24eb Elan Microelectronics Corp.  
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp.  
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:9314 Suyin Corp.  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

however the 15th line of lspci sure looks like it to me

01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01)
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I guess I should have remembered that, thanks for the reminder.

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So, resolved now?

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completely

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Thanks for reminding me of the name of the file system! I knew I had to install one, because I have had to do this before, but I was tearing my hair out trying to remember the name, until I found this thread.

Tries to instil it into my brain for the next version of Suse I install It’s ExFAT. ExFAT.

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Glad that it helped to remember what was required. It is easy to forget these things I know. :slight_smile: