exfat formatted SD card not recognised …

[Member mikey777]

I have an 64GB exfat formatted microSD card to collect data for my wildlife camera. However, when inserted
into the USB-2 ports on my Asus laptop, it is not recognized by antiX 21, as it does not show under either the file
(PCMan) or partition (gparted) managers.

I should mention that the microSD is not corrupted, as it is recognised by another laptop (Lenovo), running an
Ubuntu-based distro, that has USB-3 ports.

Is the failure to recognize the exfat SD card down to an issue of USB-3 vs. USB-2, or some missing software in
antiX 21?

Many thanks in advance for your help.

• This topic was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by mikey777.

▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
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[Member punranger]

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Not an expert, but exfat support is not included in my vanilla install. Have you checked or installed such support? The package is available in Synaptic, or you can try:

sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils

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This is the way.

[Member mikey777]

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@punranger
Thank you for your suggestion. However, the software you indicated is already installed, i.e:

dpkg --list exfat*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-==================================>
ii  exfat-fuse     1.3.0-2      amd64        read and write exFAT driver for FU>
ii  exfat-utils    1.3.0-2      amd64        utilities to create, check, label >
un  exfatprogs     <none>       <none>       (no description available)

Needless to say, I still get the notification shown below. I then went a bit further
in trying to solve this. I dual-booted my present install of antiX21 with LXLE Focal (based
on Ubuntu 20.04.04) – the SD card doesn’t show any mounting error on LXLE, its files being readily
accessible. The only difference in the exfat-fuse and exfat-utils installed on LXLE is
that it has version 1.3.0-1, instead of 1.3.0-2 in antiX21.

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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Try the 5.10 kernel

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[Member mikey777]

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anticapitalista wrote:

Try the 5.10 kernel

Thanks anticapitalista for this idea, which I followed, but found that my 14-year-old Asus laptop (2008) wouldn’t boot with 5.10,
after installing the antiX version of 5.10 64bit from cli-aptiX.

LXLE Focal comes with kernel 5.4 by default (which does boot on my Asus) and, as I said above, the SD card works with LXLE,
though obviously It would be good to get it working with antiX.

Any more ideas/comments greatly welcomed …

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• This reply was modified 9 months, 2 weeks ago by mikey777.

▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member AlexZaz]

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Hi mikey777,

I’m using antiX 19.2 ans I mount my external exfat disk using disk manager ( available into the control center).

In antiX 21 I do not see it. It is available in the MX repositories.

Hope this can help.

Regards

[Member mikey777]

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AlexZaz wrote:

Hi mikey777,
I’m using antiX 19.2 ans I mount my external exfat disk using disk manager ( available into the control center).
In antiX 21 I do not see it. It is available in the MX repositories.
Hope this can help.
Regards

I only see the following under ‘Disks’, in the antiX-control-centre:

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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member mikey777]

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This might be important when I formatted the microSD with exfat: it was formatted using the formatting setting in my wildlife camera, not in Linux (antiX).
I did wonder about this as the microSD card’s UUID has only 8 digits – is this normal?

The UUID of the microSD card is represented by /dev/sdc1 in the terminal output below:

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="root-antiX21" UUID="5be186e2-1238-44c6-81e8-ef635ca05595" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="24eeb1fe-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="root-lxle-focus" UUID="03171ba7-fef4-456b-873a-efe5730624ec" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="24eeb1fe-02"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Backup-AsusData" UUID="51e718c0-2119-458b-b3ca-1d13fbf193cd" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7e8688bc-01"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="1680-9036" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="exfat"

▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

[Member iznit]

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next step, check//edit:
add exfat to allowed_types within udevil.conf

You can find the “what and why” of this action by searching on the web for “linux udevil exfat”

[Member mikey777]

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iznit wrote:

next step, check//edit:
add exfat to allowed_types within udevil.conf
You can find the “what and why” of this action by searching on the web for “linux udevil exfat”

Thanks iznit, for your offer of help. I tried what you suggested, adding exfat to the allowed_types list, but
unfortunately it didn’t fix the problem. I should mention that the kernel I’m using is 4.9, as anticapitalista mentioned kernel.

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▪ 32-bit antix19.4-core+LXDE installed on :
- (2011) Samsung NP-N145 Plus (JP04UK) – single-core CPU Intel Atom N455@1.66GHz, 2GB RAM, integrated graphics.
▪ 64-bit antix21-base+LXDE installed on:
- (2008) Asus X71Q (7SC002) – dual CPU Intel T3200@2.0GHz, 4GB RAM. Graphics: Intel Mobile 4 Series, integrated graphics
- (2007) Packard Bell Easynote MX37 (ALP-Ajax C3) – dual CPU Intel T2310@1.46GHz, 2GB RAM. Graphics: Silicon Integrated Systems.

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Maybe the way the camera is formatting the device isn’t normal?

Try formatting the device with the PC under antiX Linux. Copy some files to it and see if you can red them back. If that works, then try putting it in the camera and adding files to it. Shut it down and try it in the PC again to see if the files are readable.

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BobC wrote:

Try formatting the device with the PC under antiX Linux. Copy some files to it and see if you can red them back. If that works, then try putting it in the camera and adding files to it. Shut it down and try it in the PC again to see if the files are readable.

If you can re-format as exfat in LXLE or Windows, then give BobC’s idea a try. I think there’s a good chance the camera will work with fat32 as well. (But make sure you can redo exfat formatting, just in case.)

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Try this (for kernel-version, just type the 4 and it should auto-complete)

sudo dkms autoinstall -m exfat-dkms -k <kernel-version>

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by anticapitalista.

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