[Q] microSD refuses to open any partitions but is SMART capable

hd_scania · 11-07-2023, 04:33 PM

Card profile: 1TB Lexar; with much Venusian comedy dramas inside there but not elsewhere; entirely unused but when taken for use was stuck at a now broken USB reader, unusable now
However, SMARTctl reports that the card is SMART capable but in other tools it reports no medium
(PS On Windows i never saw that card at all)

Code:

[    6.747285] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_OK
[    6.747289] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Sense not available.
[    6.747292] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
[    6.747293] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 0-byte physical blocks
[    6.747299] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[    6.747300] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[    6.747305] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Asking for cache data failed
[    6.747324] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[    6.748018] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   50.285430] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Media removed, stopped polling
[   50.286146] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.1.60-1-lts] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

/dev/sdd: Unknown USB bridge [0x0bda:0x0150 (0x5712)]

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.9.1
Problem opening /dev/sdd for reading! Error is 123.

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
Unable to open file or device /dev/sdd: No medium found

PhotoRec 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
Unable to open file or device /dev/sdd: No medium found

sdd           8:48   1     0B  0 disk 
dd: failed to open '/dev/sdd': No medium found

Code:

% doas format_sd --update-check /dev/sdd
SD Card Formatter version 1.0.2 (build 3022.9.15.2d)
Developed by Tuxera Inc.
Fetching latest version information...
No update available.
The current version is 1.0.2.
The latest version is 1.0.2.
% doas format_sd -l 931_hn7 /dev/sdd
SD Card Formatter version 1.0.2 (build 3022.9.15.2d)
Developed by Tuxera Inc.
[ERROR] Failed to open '/dev/sdd' with flags 0x0: 123 (No medium found)
[ERROR] Failed to open fat_device: 123 (No medium found)
%

Arnulf · 11-08-2023, 03:06 PM

smart doesn't work over USB in most cases.

Because neither Linux nor Windows can detect this card something (card itself, cardreader, USB-port used for cardreader connection) is broken or cardreader cannot read SDXC cards due to incompatibility.

hd_scania · 11-08-2023, 06:51 PM

That means i need a newer USB reader fully compatible with microSDXC’s?
Not even Androids could get this card caught but btw definitely no issues are from the USB ports (i checked most things else are ok)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arnulf

smart doesn't work over USB in most cases .
Because neither Linux nor Windows can detect this card something (card itself, cardreader, USB-port used for cardreader connection) is broken or cardreader cannot read SDXC cards due to incompatibility.