Hi, I have an HP Pavilion dv5 laptop, which has an integrated memory card reader (labeled with "SD*MS/Pro*MMC*XD) and appearing with lspci as: 0a:00.1 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller 0a:00.2 SD Host controller: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller 0a:00.3 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller 0a:00.4 System peripheral: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller I have mainly used a 1 GB SD card from puremedia, but I have seen the problem with another card as well. Basically, if I try to read image files from the card using the card reader, the images come out corrupted (having the card inside a Canon Ixus camera and reading the images via a USB cable works). The logs don't seem to contain anything suspicious: [ 1262.957504] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver [ 1262.957511] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman [ 1262.962070] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.1: SDHCI controller found [197b:2382] (rev 0) [ 1262.962105] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.1: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 1262.962275] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.1: setting latency timer to 64 [ 1262.963721] Registered led device: mmc0:: [ 1262.964075] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:0a:00.1] using DMA [ 1262.964110] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.2: SDHCI controller found [197b:2381] (rev 0) [ 1262.964137] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 [ 1262.964158] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.2: Refusing to bind to secondary interface. [ 1262.964170] sdhci-pci 0000:0a:00.2: PCI INT A disabled [ 1266.834763] mmc0: new SD card at address 1234 [ 1266.924222] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SD01G 972 MiB [ 1266.925586] mmcblk0: p1 [ 2575.746579] mmc0: card 1234 removed [ 3544.629621] loop: module loaded [ 4747.394461] mmc0: new SD card at address 1234 [ 4747.394793] mmcblk0: mmc0:1234 SD01G 972 MiB [ 4747.396090] mmcblk0: p1 [ 5075.523021] mmc0: card 1234 removed I transferred some text files to the card and back to see if there's some regularity in the corruption, but it varies. For example, of 100 files of varying sizes (largest 98KB), at one point 11 files might be corrupted, and after umount/mount maybe 6. I copied the memory card file system to a file; loop mounting that file system gives one stable (but corrupted) view of the files, so I suppose it's not a file system (vfat) issue, but something with the hardware. Currently I am using a custom 2.6.37 kernel (on 64 bit Arch Linux up to date), but I have seen corrupted images coming from the card reader on several previous kernels as well. Is there something I could test or some specific information I should provide? Here is one example of the corruption I am talking about: - the source file 49.txt consists of lines 0049-0001 0049-0002 0049-0003 ... 0049-2399 0049-2400 0049-2401 The file is exactly 24010 bytes long. After transferring that file to the SD card and back (via the card reader) and taking a diff, the differences are: @@ -407,1995 +407,1992 @@ 0049-0407 0049-0408 0049-0409 -0049-0410 -0049-0411 -0049-0412 ... (all lines in between removed; each line is 10 bytes) -0049-2399 -0049-2400 -0049-2401 +0049-00049-0001 +0049-0002 +0049-0003 ... (all lines in between added) +0049-0408 +0049-0409 +0049-00049-0001 +0049-0002 +0049-0003 ... +0049-0408 +0049-0409 +0049-00049-0001 +0049-0002 +0049-0003 ... +0049-0407 +0049-0408 +0049-0409 +0049-00049-0001 +0049-0002 +0049-0003 ... +0049-0407 +0049-0408 +0049-0409 +0049-00049-0001 +0049-0002 +0049-0003 ... +0049-0351 +0049-0352 +0049-0353 Also the corrupted file is exactly 24010 bytes long. In this case there seems to be a chunk of 4096 bytes repeating. I'm in no way expert, but if somebody thinks it's good to see if the other test files also contain similar chunks of 4096 bytes, I can go through them or post them here. Any help would be appreciated. Mikko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html