[Discuss] external drive not showing such as sdcard

[eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)]

On 7/9/21 3:39 PM, jbk wrote:
> On 7/9/21 3:02 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
>> On my HP Envy laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, the Files application 
>> doesn't show USB or sdcards.
>>
>> I can see USB in terminal in /dev.? However I can't see the sdcard.
>>
>> ????eric at dragonEnvy:/media/eric$ ls -la /dev/sd*
>> ????brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,? 0 Jul? 9 12:54 /dev/sda
>> ????brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,? 1 Jul? 9 12:54 /dev/sda1
>> ????brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,? 2 Jul? 9 12:54 /dev/sda2
>> ????brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,? 3 Jul? 9 12:54 /dev/sda3
>> ????brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jul? 9 13:19 /dev/sdb? // the USB dongle
> 
> What is the partition type on the card, ntfs? If it is ntfs then maybe 
> you need to install a helper program to be able to mount and read the 
> partition on the card.
> 


For the life of me I can't get the laptop to show sdcards.  I give up. 
Maybe a driver issue.  It's been a couple of hours.

As a workaround I have a neat little Vivitar sdcard to USB A & C 
adapter. Using this I have no issues.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

Eric C.