Mounting SD card.

[Thomas Mueller]

> >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>

> true > /dev/da0

> is a little shorter and safer.  The search keywords for this are "GEOM
> retaste" or "retasting".

Could you also do a read such as

dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=16k count=1

?


Tom