[olug] Getting SCHD Card to read in SuSE

[Rob Townley]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Thomas D. Williamson
<twilliam at inebraska.com> wrote:
> I have a Compaq laptop with SuSE 11.2 loaded, it works well when reading
> USBs, but I wanted to transfer some pictures from a digital camera and put
> the SCHD card in the slot. The first time it read the new storage device and
> opened up the folders on it. I chose safely remove drive to take it out and
> put it back in the camera for other pictures. When I put the card back in
> there was no recognition of it being there or any indication it was
> accessible. I had the card in when I shut the system down and restarted it
> later. On the restart the card was found and available. I finished what I
> was doing removed the card, took some additional pictures and put the card
> in the laptop again. It did not recognize the card again, I tired just to
> log off and log  back in to see if the card would be found, but it wasn't.
> So I restarted the system with the card in the slot and it appeared.
>
> Is there something I can do to get the card recognized without restarting
> the system? I was trying to tell it to mount the card, but since it does not
> seem to see it, there is nothing to mount.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Williamson
>
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i would check the HP.com for firmware / bios updates for the laptop.

Is it 4GB? 8GB?  64GB?  Wondering how you find out how large of a FAT
/ FAT32 filesystem a kernel can handle?