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Maxoueb	2007-02-25 , 14:49
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Hi,

I've acquired a n800 few days ago (through Nokia's website), but yesterday the External slot stopped to be recognized by the N800.
The card used for it work (both on my PC & in the internal slot), but won't be recognized when plugged in the external slot of the n800. I always have the "No memory card inserted".

I did not misused the n800, just played some MP3 and browsed the web.

After this happened I wanted to investigate a little more and installed Xterm. Here is what I have in /etc/fstab:

Code:

rootfs / roofs defaults,errors=remount-ro.noatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc1 vfat rw,noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,utf8,uid=29999 0 0

Where is the other SD slot?

Is it a software problem? or is it hardware?

Note: I used a 4Go card in the external slot (but it is recognized and working in the internal slot)

Another person has the same problem (French forum):
cf. on Maemofr: http://maemofr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2818#p2818

Thanks
Max

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w14	2007-02-25 , 15:32
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Snap!

I posted this earlier today:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=4926

Now I know I'm not the only one. I wonder what the problem is ...

Mike.

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Milhouse	2007-02-25 , 19:09
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Just asking the obvious here - have you closed the little plastic door on the external slot (and for the internal slot, replaced the battery cover)? Neither card will be mounted until the respective door or cover is closed.

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w14	2007-02-25 , 19:21
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Originally Posted by Milhouse

Just asking the obvious here - have you closed the little plastic door on the external slot (and for the internal slot, replaced the battery cover)? Neither card will be mounted until the respective door or cover is closed.

hehe ... yep.

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Maxoueb	2007-02-26 , 00:38
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Sure I did.

It seems more and more to be a Hardware problem. I re-flashed my N800, but after the reboot, the external slot is still "dead".
I bet the only solution is to send it back to Nokia and buy a new one...

Max

Last edited by Maxoueb; 2007-02-26 at 00:42.

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DCr33P	2007-02-26 , 01:04
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Did you check with dmesg that there are no errors while mounting or accessing the card?

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w14	2007-02-26 , 07:10
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Originally Posted by DCr33P

Did you check with dmesg that there are no errors while mounting or accessing the card?

Here's what I get it I open the cover and close it again:

[54399.376464] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: cover is now open
[54399.377044] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 3300 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x39)
[54399.472259] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54399.472320] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54399.472686] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: card status error (CMD55)
[54399.473815] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 2800 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x29)
[54399.534759] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54399.534790] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54399.535125] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: card status error (CMD55)
[54399.664245] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: data timeout (CMD-1)
[54399.664276] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: data timeout (CMD-1)
[54399.664978] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 0 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x01)
[54422.202514] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: cover is now closed
[54422.203216] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 3300 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x39)
[54422.292572] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54422.292633] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54422.292968] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: card status error (CMD55)
[54422.294097] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 2800 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x29)
[54422.355072] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54422.355102] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: command timeout (CMD8)
[54422.355438] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: card status error (CMD55)
[54422.484558] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: data timeout (CMD-1)
[54422.484619] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: data timeout (CMD-1)
[54422.485290] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 0 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x01)

I get exactly the same output with a smaller card, except for the CMD-1 errors.

CMD-1 is "initiate initialisation process" command, which seems to be timing out. This does not happen with a smaller card, so I wonder if this is card capacity related.

I'm going to try creating a smaller partition on the card to see if its partition size related, but I probably won't get the chance today.

Strange that this only applied to the external slot. I don't know if it gets us any closer to finding out if its a hardware or software issue ...

Mike.

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w14	2007-02-26 , 09:44
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I'm going to try creating a smaller partition on the card to see if its partition size related, but I probably won't get the chance today.

I did manage to try this before I headed to work. It made no difference. I think I'll try a card from a different manufacturer. I know there is a thread with working 4GB SD cards, but can anyone confirm a manufacturer that they have definitely working in the external slot?

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Maxoueb	2007-02-26 , 10:50
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Here is what I have:

Code:

[15918.796997] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: cover is now open
[15918.798004] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 3300 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x39)
[15918.894958] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 2800 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x29)
[15919.099365] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 0 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x01)
[15927.836120] mmci-omap mmci-omap.1: cover is now closed
[15927.837158] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 3300 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x39)
[15927.934020] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 2800 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x29)
[15928.185302] menelaus: Setting voltage 'VDCDC3' to 0 mV (reg 0x07, val 0x01)
[15930.494567] EAC mode: play enabled, rec enabled

Indeed we have the same problem.

w14> Do you think the external slot can't support 4G SD card but the internal one can? (my 4Go card worked 1 day in the external, but has been working for some days in the internal one)

Max