How can I read SD card on ubuntu?

Question

I read various topics here, but wasn't able to find solution for my problem. I have a sdcard reader on my dell v131 laptop with ubuntu 15.10 installed. I insert my sdcard to reader and cannot find it in media folder.

Output of dmesg |tail:

[ 2598.842091] usb 4-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=0138
[ 2598.842102] usb 4-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2598.842108] usb 4-1.6: Product: USB2.0-CRW
[ 2598.842112] usb 4-1.6: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 2598.842117] usb 4-1.6: SerialNumber: 20090516388200000
[ 2598.848716] ums-realtek 4-1.6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2598.865053] scsi host14: usb-storage 4-1.6:1.0
[ 2599.869001] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic- Multi-Card       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 2599.869776] sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 2606.258161] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Sdcard in disks:

The /media folder is empty. Output of cat /proc/partitions | grep sdb is empty

How can I acces my sdcard?

UPD: It seems that my sdcard is dead since format option is grayed out in disks utility. I don't have a second card in touch to verify this. Anyway thank you all for support.

Solution 1

check your partitions inside

# cat /proc/partitions

If you have there something like

# cat /proc/partitions | grep sdb
   8        0  234431064 sdb
   8        1     524288 sdb1

You can try to mount sdb1

# sudo mkdir /media/sdb1
# sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1

Solution 2

Simplest way:

sudo mkdir /media/sd
sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/sd

Your SD card's contents will now be under /media/sd/.

If your SD card has non-readable filesystem (aka one that Ubuntu doesn't support) you'll have to format it (and lose all your data before you can use it).

Comments

[You'reAGitForNotUsingGit]

Is it listed in disks? (Dash > disks)

[Михаил Павлов]

Please see screenshot attached in startpost

[sudodus]

Are there files to recover in your sd card? Or would you be happy to format the card?

[Михаил Павлов]

Mount command gives mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb

[Mostafa Ahangarha]

instead of sdb use sdb1

[Daniel]

Yeah, try that ^ But I'm not so sure it will work