03 Nov 2006

Large SD card hangs Ubuntu Edgy

Posted by Jacob Emcken

Damn… never brag about uptime :-(

Today I received a 2GB SD card which I’m going to use to store ssh and gpg keys on. Of cause I’m going to encrypt it like I wrote about some days ago. When I inserted the SD card into my laptop everything just froze… it guess I’m hit by bug #61758. Ubuntu Edgy uses kernel 2.6.17 which seems to be affected by this bug. It should be fixed in 2.6.18 though.

I’ll try to patch my kernel module… god I hoped those days where over. Exciting to see if I can even remember how to do it. I hope this gets fixed soon, life is to short to compile kernel modules. My laptop should just work.

Category: Ubuntu

3 Comments to Large SD card hangs Ubuntu Edgy

n3ldan
December 21, 2006

Yeah I have the same problem. You have an X40? I can read my 256mb card just fine, but my not my 2gb card. It’s a bummer, but I just use my camera as an SD reader.

stocks29
March 9, 2007

Same problem here too. I have an Dell xps m140 laptop. Exact same situation with my 2GB SD Card. Any word on a fix.

Jacob Emcken
March 9, 2007

The bug was fixed a while back. My kernel:

Linux rohan 2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 19:52:28 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

And my 2GB SD card is now working. You got the same card reader hardware?

Mine is (output from lspci):

02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
02:00.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 13)

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