[SOLVED] Unable to put MP3 files onto SD card-- was able before latest MX

[dolphin_oracle]

but sdb1 is not showing up.

[tony37]

Strange you have /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdb1, do you still have files on your card?
Maybe time to print your output of

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dmesg

(starting from when you inserted your SD-card, in my case this starts with 'usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci')

[sps7]

Yes, there are still all my MP3 files on the SD card. [I also have all of them backed up on an external SSD/USB-type storage device.]

So many lines to look over! I ran lsusb to find the card reader, so here's the output. I hope this is what's sought by you great MX helpers:

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usb 2-2: Manufacturer: ALCOR
[    1.671451] hub 2-2:1.0: USB hub found
[    1.671514] hub 2-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
[    1.786082] usb 2-9: new low-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[    1.868231] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3292.376 MHz
[    1.868236] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2f752a1872e, max_idle_ns: 440795303697 ns
[    1.868258] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[    1.917267] usb 2-9: New USB device found, idVendor=03f0, idProduct=2c24, bcdDevice=31.00
[    1.917268] usb 2-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[    1.917269] usb 2-9: Product: HP USB Laser Mouse
[    1.917270] usb 2-9: Manufacturer: HP
[    1.919482] hid: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[    1.924255] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[    1.924255] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[    1.924965] input: HP HP USB Laser Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb2/2-9/2-9:1.0/0003:03F0:2C24.0001/input/input4
[    1.925001] hid-generic 0003:03F0:2C24.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HP HP USB Laser Mouse] on usb-0000:00:14.0-9/input0
[    2.034050] raid6: avx2x4   gen() 38159 MB/s
[    2.051066] raid6: avx2x4   xor() 12465 MB/s
[    2.068077] raid6: avx2x2   gen() 38263 MB/s
[    2.085062] raid6: avx2x2   xor() 22212 MB/s
[    2.102049] raid6: avx2x1   gen() 34694 MB/s
[    2.119049] raid6: avx2x1   xor() 19060 MB/s
[    2.136049] raid6: sse2x4   gen() 20115 MB/s
[    2.153049] raid6: sse2x4   xor() 10121 MB/s
[    2.170049] raid6: sse2x2   gen() 19483 MB/s
[    2.187049] raid6: sse2x2   xor() 11327 MB/s
[    2.204050] raid6: sse2x1   gen() 15801 MB/s
[    2.221049] raid6: sse2x1   xor()  9733 MB/s
[    2.221050] raid6: using algorithm avx2x2 gen() 38263 MB/s
[    2.221050] raid6: .... xor() 22212 MB/s, rmw enabled
[    2.221050] raid6: using avx2x2 recovery algorithm
[    2.221265] xor: automatically using best checksumming function   avx       
[    2.238249] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-intel, assert=on
[    2.575944] random: crng init done
[    2.666087] process '/usr/bin/fstype' started with executable stack
[    3.602719] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[    5.741457] systemd-udevd[611]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v240'.
[    6.187587] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    6.187605] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[    6.249511] cryptd: max_cpu_qlen set to 1000
[    6.265295] AVX2 version of gcm_enc/dec engaged.
[    6.265296] AES CTR mode by8 optimization enabled
[    6.904707] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[    6.912343] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.11
[    6.912383] iTCO_wdt: Found a Lynx Point TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1860)
[    6.912479] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[    6.931821] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:03.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_globals_exit [i915])
[    7.058698] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input5
[    7.058728] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input6
[    7.058753] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input7
[    7.058785] input: HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/sound/card0/input8
[    7.085121] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0: autoconfig for ALC662 rev3: line_outs=1 (0x14/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0) type:line
[    7.085122] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    speaker_outs=1 (0x15/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    7.085123] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    hp_outs=1 (0x1b/0x0/0x0/0x0/0x0)
[    7.085124] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    mono: mono_out=0x0
[    7.085124] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:    inputs:
[    7.085125] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Front Mic=0x19
[    7.085126] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Rear Mic=0x18
[    7.085127] snd_hda_codec_realtek hdaudioC1D0:      Line=0x1a
[    7.096301] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input9
[    7.096332] input: HDA Intel PCH Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input10
[    7.096355] input: HDA Intel PCH Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input11
[    7.096378] input: HDA Intel PCH Line Out as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input12
[    7.096401] input: HDA Intel PCH Front Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card1/input13
[    7.176493] intel-spi intel-spi: mx25l6405d (8192 Kbytes)
[    7.176614] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain package
[    7.176615] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain core
[    7.176616] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain uncore
[    7.176616] intel_rapl_common: Found RAPL domain dram
[    7.176618] intel_rapl_common: RAPL package-0 domain package locked by BIOS
[    7.176622] intel_rapl_common: RAPL package-0 domain dram locked by BIOS
[    7.178882] Creating 1 MTD partitions on "intel-spi":
[    7.178884] 0x000000000000-0x000000800000 : "BIOS"
[    7.825769] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
[    7.829238] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'
[    7.902229] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[    7.902230] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[    8.277261] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x11
[    8.306571] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0
[    8.306650] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
[    8.306665] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
[    8.306685] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'
[    8.306892] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu
[    8.600589] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8xxxu
[    8.601185] systemd-udevd[574]: Using default interface naming scheme 'v240'.
[    8.956968] systemd-udevd[602]: Process '/usr/sbin/alsactl -E HOME=/run/alsa restore 1' failed with exit code 99.
[    9.194114] Adding 16848892k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-2 extents:1 across:16848892k FS
[    9.232952] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
[    9.456509] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
[    9.456557] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.42.0-ioctl (2020-02-27) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
[    9.914975] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[    9.930875] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   10.049240] loop: module loaded
[   10.191127] EXT4-fs (sda4): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   10.233783] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   11.277818] networking done
[   11.574373] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[   11.574374] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   11.574374] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   11.574383] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[   11.598023] FS-Cache: Loaded
[   11.638307] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[   11.638439] *** VALIDATE nfs ***
[   11.638449] *** VALIDATE nfs4 ***
[   11.740702] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[   11.740708] Key type id_resolver registered
[   11.740708] Key type id_legacy registered
[   11.759287] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[   12.109259] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input14
[   15.625376] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[   15.625391] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   15.625391] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   15.625394] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   15.625395] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   15.625397] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   15.711354] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   15.711355] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   15.711359] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   17.060479] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-200:00: attached PHY driver [Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-200:00, irq=IGNORE)
[   17.159928] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Link is Down
[   17.166216] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[   17.176872] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[   17.704110] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[   17.714630] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[   20.157138] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   21.222332] broken atomic modeset userspace detected, disabling atomic
[   22.541947] systemd-logind[2919]: New seat seat0.
[   22.625780] systemd-logind[2919]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Power Button)
[   22.634058] systemd-logind[2919]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Power Button)
[   22.718113] systemd-logind[2919]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (AT Translated Set 2 keyboard)
[   22.718165] systemd-logind[2919]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event14 (ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device)
[   22.765872] systemd-logind[2919]: Failed to start user service 'user@119.service', ignoring: Unknown unit: user@119.service
[   22.778061] cgroup: cgroup: disabling cgroup2 socket matching due to net_prio or net_cls activation
[   22.778697] systemd-logind[2919]: New session 1 of user sddm.
[   23.882985] NET: Registered protocol family 3
[   24.039518] NET: Registered protocol family 5
[   24.084941] NET: Unregistered protocol family 5
[   24.103948] NET: Registered protocol family 5
[   24.149999] NET: Unregistered protocol family 5
[   24.169086] NET: Registered protocol family 5
[   24.210971] NET: Unregistered protocol family 5
[   31.472363] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[   31.482884] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[   32.097690] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-200:00: attached PHY driver [Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-200:00, irq=IGNORE)
[   32.189607] r8169 0000:02:00.0 eth0: Link is Down
[   32.276125] rtl8192cu: MAC auto ON okay!
[   32.286849] rtl8192cu: Tx queue select: 0x05
[   33.407982] systemd-logind[2919]: Failed to start user service 'user@1000.service', ignoring: Unknown unit: user@1000.service
[   33.422213] systemd-logind[2919]: New session 2 of user sps7.
[   33.535034] systemd-logind[2919]: Session 1 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit.
[   35.950241] wlan0: authenticate with 00:14:d1:b2:b9:68
[   35.971408] wlan0: send auth to 00:14:d1:b2:b9:68 (try 1/3)
[   35.972580] wlan0: authenticated
[   35.972753] wlan0: associate with 00:14:d1:b2:b9:68 (try 1/3)
[   35.998341] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:b2:b9:68 (capab=0xc11 status=0 aid=1)
[   35.999557] wlan0: associated
[   36.042351] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   54.346722] fuse: init (API version 7.31)
[   54.346746] *** VALIDATE fuseblk ***
[   54.346751] *** VALIDATE fuse ***
[  175.302759] usb 2-10: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[  175.430196] usb 2-10: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6335, bcdDevice= 1.05
[  175.430197] usb 2-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  175.430199] usb 2-10: Product: Mass Storage Device
[  175.430200] usb 2-10: Manufacturer: Generic
[  175.430200] usb 2-10: SerialNumber: 058F63356336
[  175.990874] usb-storage 2-10:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[  175.990922] scsi host4: usb-storage 2-10:1.0
[  175.990981] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  175.999325] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[  177.015132] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Single   Flash Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[  177.015262] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  177.771966] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 31387648 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
[  177.772210] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
[  177.772211] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
[  177.772455] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[  177.772456] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[  177.781529]  sdb:
[  177.782658] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[  182.090789] FAT-fs (sdb): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[  307.763421] usb 2-5: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[  307.966543] usb 2-5: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=a68a, bcdDevice=93.01
[  307.966549] usb 2-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  307.966552] usb 2-5: Product: SD600
[  307.966555] usb 2-5: Manufacturer: ADATA
[  307.966557] usb 2-5: SerialNumber: 492154532006
[  307.969998] scsi host5: uas
[  307.970845] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ADATA    SD600            9301 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[  307.971886] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[  308.662125] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 1000215216 512-byte logical blocks: (512 GB/477 GiB)
[  308.662126] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocks
[  308.662273] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[  308.662274] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 5f 00 00 08
[  308.662584] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[  308.662809] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes not a multiple of physical block size (4096 bytes)
[  308.670148]  sdc: sdc1
[  308.671434] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[  312.766636] FAT-fs (sdc1): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[  349.711729] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[  349.834419] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] Synchronize Cache(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[  349.859925] usb 2-5: USB disconnect, device number 6
[  682.024084] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
[  682.080374] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, repair, quota, no debug enabled
[  682.080662] *** VALIDATE xfs ***
[  966.432853] FAT-fs (sdb): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[ 1463.766644] nf_conntrack: default automatic helper assignment has been turned off for security reasons and CT-based  firewall rule not found. Use the iptables CT target to attach helpers instead.
[ 1493.491367] usb 2-10: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 1512.151130] usb 2-10: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[ 1512.278539] usb 2-10: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6335, bcdDevice= 1.05
[ 1512.278542] usb 2-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1512.278544] usb 2-10: Product: Mass Storage Device
[ 1512.278545] usb 2-10: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 1512.278547] usb 2-10: SerialNumber: 058F63356336
[ 1512.279758] usb-storage 2-10:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 1512.279852] scsi host4: usb-storage 2-10:1.0
[ 1513.314520] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Single   Flash Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 1513.314735] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 1514.074423] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 31387648 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1 GB/15.0 GiB)
[ 1514.074667] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on
[ 1514.074668] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
[ 1514.074899] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 1514.074901] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1514.083825]  sdb:
[ 1514.085045] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 1516.734169] FAT-fs (sdb): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

[tony37]

You could just have posted starting from [1512.151130], but ok.
The log says

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[ 1514.074667] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on

which is exactly what I see in dmesg when I put the 'lock' on my SD card on, as explained in post #2.
So are you very very sure the lock isn't on?

How small is your SD card? is it a microSD that you put into an adapter?

[tony37]

I found this on the web:

Similarly, you might find that an old and well-worn card will have a lock switch that doesn't hold its position anymore, and may even get toggled just from the force of putting the card in a reader in the first place. You can just glue it in the "unlocked" position or carefully pull it out with a pair of tweezers to no ill effect (though the management disavows all responsibility if you snap your brand new $200 512 gig card in half). That card will never be locked again.

Is it possible you have this kind of problem, that the lock is enabled by the act of placing it in the pc?

[sps7]

I never use that lock but looked for images of both locked and unlocked. My SD card is in the unlocked position but I still can't paste any MP3 file onto it and I also found I can't re-format it. In case the maker of the card (Transcend) doesn't follow the convention for locked/unlocked, I pushed the button to the other end and still can't paste an MP3 file onto it. I opened KDE Partition Manager while the SD card is plugged in, then I unmounted it and tried to create a new msdos partition table but saw this KDE Partition Manager error message:

Job: Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sdb’
Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sdb’: Error
Create a new partition table (type: msdos) on ‘/dev/sdb’: Error

Running Gparted, I read that the SD card has a "read only file system".

I know that something changed in or for this SD card when I installed late last year the latest version of MX but I don't know what that could have been. I suppose I'll just send this SD card to Transcend to find out what's wrong with it.

[sps7]

Thanks to all here who tried to help me!

[tony37]

I found a final thing you can try:

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sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sdb

I found this on https://askubuntu.com/questions/101637/ ... ection-off

[sps7]

Thanks tony37.

Looking up troubles caused by card readers, I learned that they do break. A neighbor lent me his card reader and now I can paste MP3 files from Dolphin to the SD card-- I never suspected my card reader wasn't working properly. My card reader's shot and is now headed to some electronics recycler.

[chrispop99]

Glad you now have it sorted.

Please go to your first post, click the pencil icon, then edit the title to say 'Solved'.

Chris