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[Discuss] external drive not showing such as sdcard



On Sat Jul 10, 2021 at 1:01 AM UTC, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> As a workaround I have a neat little Vivitar sdcard to USB A & C
> adapter. Using this I have no issues.

If you're connecting an SD card directly to your computer, it'll show up
as /dev/mmcblkX rather than /dev/sdX, with partitions as /dev/mmcblkXpY.
If you can't find anything there, you should check dmesg(1) to see what
errors, if any, the mmcblk driver is reporting.



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