Usb-card-reader

USB card readers provide USB Storage to your computer. When using or buying them, take care: Many USB card readers are not able to read SD HC cards, just regular SD cards.

Use it

To use a USB card reader open a console and

• clear your syslog

dmesg -c

• attach the card reader with the card in it to a USB port
• read your syslog

dmesg

• watch for some lines that tell you as which device the card reader was attached:

[34773.554609]  sdc: sdc1

in this case it was attached as disk /dev/sdc, containing a partition /dev/sdc1

• make sure you are root

su  -

• create a directory for your flash card

mkdir /mnt/sdc1

• mount your flash reader's card to this directory

mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1

Now your SD card's files can be found under /mnt/sdc1

See also

• hardware