Mounting SD card.

[Mike Clarke]

On Wednesday 14 November 2012 19:43:30 Fernando Apesteguía wrote:

> If I boot the system and plug the SD card in, the green led
> doesn't even switch on and there is only a /dev/da0 that I can not
> mount. If I boot the system with the card plugged in, the green led is
> on and there is a /dev/da0s1 device that I can't still mount because
> mount_msdosfs returns an Input/Output error after some time.

I think that's pretty much standard behaviour. The solution appears to be 
to "wake" it up with the following incantation:

     dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/da0 count=0

That's what works here. See the thread starting with 
<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-February/212109.html>

-- 
Mike Clarke