SD Card Fix Fubar

Francesco Cat heartcollector87 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 3 11:00:37 CEST 2008


have you tried a different SD before sending it??

2008/8/3 Scott Derrick <scott at tnstaafl.net>:
> Well I think I screwed my SD card reader trying to solder on the GPS fix.
>
> I got the cap soldered on, slamed in an sd card and fired it up.
>
> No card. Nothing mounted at /media/card and doing a manual mount
> produced the error
>
> mount: special device /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not exist
>
> BUMMER!
>
> So.... pulled the card out, got out the big magnifier and there was a
> solder spec between pin 6 and 7!  *hit!
>
> I unsoldered the cap, sucked and scraped all the solder out. Metered
> between all the pins to verify no shorts( I know I should have done that
>  first). Put the card back in and no joy..  nada..
>
> Not sure how to proceed now.  Is Openmoko going to be taking FR's back
> for repairs?
>
> Scott
>
>
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