I had this problem too, did a system restore wiht the dvd and it went away, no idea what I did to cause it though cause it worked with SOME devices without any problems.

My Kingston MicroSD reader worked.. and that's off myhead the ONLY thing I remember right now.

Did I do anything else? errr.... updated skype to 2.0, installed something for SMPlayer to get RMVB support. But the thing is, i still did all that after restoring from the disc and everything still works fine.

It gave an error that DVD-R/W didn't exist when I plugged it in to see if anything on the CD that comes with the EEE could help. So, ended up restoring, and all works now.

I wonder what is going on, as this seems to related to problems that other people on this forum are having trouble with as well.

I had the same thing.  Turns out for some reason my /media folder had disappeared like socks in the drier.

open a terminal:

sudo mkdir /media

and bob's your uncle, it was back.
Your mileage may vary, but that solution worked for me and a few others.  I dunno if this is what caused it, but make sure to right click the SD card icon in the system tray and make it safe to eject before you pull the card out.

Thanks, natefalls, that worked great for me.  I have a brand new SD card, and had this problem too.  The Eee wants to automount it under the /media directory then make a link from there to your home directory.  If there's no /media directory, it's not going to be able to make the link either, and that secondary linking is what seems to be failing, which is why it appears as /home/user/MMC... in the error message.

jj

hi, i have the same problem and have scoured the forums -- updating my BIOS to 703 (I have the eeepc 4G) didn't work, so i tried creating the /media directory as the forums suggested, but this didn't work either since /media already exists.

i'm not sure why my SD card suddenly failed to mount since it was working fine until yesterday, and I don't know what I could have done to change anything, unless removing the SD card incorrectly has screwed up the drive. I've now tried 6 SD cards and none of them work.

When I insert the device, I get the Removable Device popup window which has one option: "Open in File Manager". When I click on okay, another window pops up a few seconds later saying that "You do not have enough permissions to read /media/MMC-SD".

When I go to File Manager and try to open /media/MMC-SD, I again get an error message saying "You do not have enough permissions to read /media/MMC-SD". Right-clicking on the folder and changing the permissions doesn't help either.

Going to File Manager and right-clicking on My Home--> MMC-SD brings up the properties window, which tells me that the symbolic link points to "/media/MMC-SD" but that the Full name is /home/user/MMC-SD.

When I right-click on the little SD tab in the panel (I'm running advanced mode), it tells me that the free space on the MMC-SD is 0k, which is definitely incorrect.

Other info: I followed the instructions on the wiki and combined the original partitions to regain space, and am running advanced desktop. (I'm certain that the repartitioning was successful because everything worked great for two weeks before the mounting problem started)

That's all the info I can think of that might help -- if anyone can troubleshoot the problem and give a linux newbie a step by step walkthrough, I'd be eternally grateful!

very frustrating! I was able to write files to  my transcend sdhc 8gig 6 card until yesterday when I formatted it using ext2 I believe it is called.

I have tried the info at this site: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:sd_permissions

No luck. Although there are a ton of lines that look the same, maybe I am editting the wrong line? can someone clarify?

I tried the suggestion of hitting F2 at boot and changing OS to start and finished and then start again as directed somewhere else, no luck

I tried safely removing the sdhc card and deleting the media folder and adding it back in as suggested. no luck

This is SO frustrating! Makes me wish I had not formatted it. At least then I c ould still save simple files on it. as it is now I have a useless sdhc card.

Can someone pretty please help me?

running linux xandros on a 4 gig eee
Thanks much!

I think I can help -- after googling for hours I came up with a workaround and my SD card is now readable again, without my having to reformat for the umpteenth time. Since I'm a Linux newbie, I'd appreciate it if the experts could let me know if this method is correct -- it worked for me but I'm writing the instructions from memory and may have the sequence mixed up.

First, you need to mount the SD card manually, since the eeepc is not reading it automatically.
1.) Create a folder in /home/user that you can mount the SD card to. Open File Manager --> go to /home/user --> create a new folder. My new folder is /home/user/Farpavilions, substitute the following instructions with your own folder name.

2.) Insert your SD card, which your eeepc will refuse to read. Open up the console (CTRL + ALT +T) and type "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/user/Farpavilions"

Once this is done, I *think* you should be able to access and read the file from File Manager.

3.) If you don't want to have to mount the card manually everytime you reboot, follow the Wiki instructions for disabling device detection at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:tempdisab … detection. I used the "disable at startup only function" to allow me to automount other devices eg. flashdrives. If you do this and subsequently want to unmount the device, make sure that you manually unmount the SD card by typing "sudo umount /home/user/Farpavilions" in the console.

4.) I suspect this is optional, but to make sure that you set the right permissions for reading/writing to SD cards, follow these instructions:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:sd_permissions

And if you really really want to make sure, you could also go to the new specified folder ("/home/user/Farpavilions" in my example), open up a console, and type in "sudo chmod -R 777".

Once you've done all this, you should be able to access your SD card directly from File Manager upon reboot. If for any reason your permissions are still giving you grief, you can probably work around it by using File Manager (Administrator) instead.

Thank you farpavilions, saw your response after I posted

Fix worked for me also...no idea why suddenly stopped working hope this is not a regular occurence

i need to partition and format my 900pc 16 gig drive