Mounting SD card.

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Mike Clarke wrote:
>
>> 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>
>
>
> true > /dev/da0

That doesn't work for me, but the dd operation does. What can be the difference?

>
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