Etcher: Won't recognize SD card inserted into MacBook

[volare71]

• Etcher version: 1.4.4
• Operating system and architecture: Macbook Pro OSX Yosimite 10.10.1
• Image flashed: Raspian_stretch.zip
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools? Didn't look

Macs do not have an Alt key??? fn, control,option

[jhermsmeier]

Oh, the Alt key is also named the Option key on some Mac keyboards. We should add that to the instructions.

Did you see any errors pop up? And does it show up if you enable "Unsafe mode" through the settings?

[volare71]

Thanks:
No error popped up and I did not enable unsafe mode.

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Jonas Hermsmeier [e-mail]
wrote:

Oh, the Alt key is also named the Option key on some Mac keyboards. We
should add that to the instructions.

Did you see any errors pop up? And does it show up if you enable "Unsafe
mode" through the settings?

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[vatbrain]

Having same issue with Etcher 1.4.4 on Macbook Pro with OSX 10.9.5
No error message other than "No removable drive detected".
Wish I had not overwritten my previous Etcher version (1.4.2?), which was seeing the SD card.

[lurch]

Wish I had not overwritten my previous Etcher version

Old releases are available from https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/releases
I think if you can track down the last version in which it _did_ work, and the first version in which it _doesn't_ work, that would help the Etcher team narrow down the problem.

[vatbrain]

@lurch Thank you for the link to Old releases.
1.4.3 did not recognize my SD card. 1.4.1 did not run properly.
1.3.1 recognized the SD card.

[T-Firefly]

Having the same issue here. Also verify that v1.3.1 can recongize the SD card while later versions do not.

I run the example/index.js from drivelist in the v1.4.4 branch of Etcher, it can list my USB disk correctly.

[jhermsmeier]

@volare71 thanks for checking!
@volare71, @vatbrain can you tell us which particular SD-card you've been using (name & vendor), and by which means they were connected?

@T-Firefly can you post the output of when you run example/index.js with the SD-card connected? That'd really help us figure this out

[kriekprinsloo]

If my input is not unwelcome, I would like to say that the same thing
happens with my SD card reader. I have found out that my late 2012 MacBook
Pro's SD drive is half broken. You should try using a different computer,
see if your problem is fixed.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:31 AM, Jonas Hermsmeier [e-mail]
wrote:

@volare71 https://github.com/volare71 thanks for checking!
@volare71 https://github.com/volare71, @vatbrain
https://github.com/vatbrain can you tell us which particular SD-card
you've been using (name & vendor), and by which means they were connected?

@T-Firefly https://github.com/T-Firefly can you post the output of when
you run example/index.js with the SD-card connected? That'd really help
us figure this out

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[vatbrain]

@jhermsmeier I was using a SanDisk Extreme 16GB micro SD HC1 plugged into an adapter and then into the SD card slot on my 2010 macbook pro.

[ThomasKaiser]

I'm having the same problem on my older MacBook that has an internal SD card reader. Affected version is 1.4.1, 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 while 1.3.1 works.

I'm using the CLI variant and ran execsnoop -a in parallel. Situation looks like this (disk3 the SD card in question):

bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         250.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS MacOS X                *249.8 GB   disk1
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2
                                 46978F99-92F7-4249-B00D-D8E5C6ACA1A9
                                 Unencrypted
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *4.0 GB     disk3
   1:             Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME                 78.6 MB    disk3s1
   2:                      Linux                         3.8 GB     disk3s2

With 1.3.1 diskutil info is called constantly while with 1.4.1 and above it's diskutil info -plist:

1.3.1:

root            74696   0,0  0,0  2469680   2672 s004  R+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil list
root            74707   3,7  0,0  2495128   3312 s004  U+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil info /dev/disk0
root            74766   0,0  0,0  2494604   3308 s004  S+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil info /dev/disk1
root            74832   0,2  0,0  2494604   3304 s004  S+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil info /dev/disk3

1.4.x

root            73944   0,0  0,0  2443268   2284 s004  R+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil list -plist
root            73951   2,6  0,0  2494604   3316 s004  S+    6:08pm   0:00.02 diskutil info -plist /dev/disk0
root            73958   0,0  0,0  2461488   2728 s004  S+    6:08pm   0:00.01 diskutil info -plist /dev/disk1
root            73970   0,0  0,0  2423612     24 s004  S+    6:08pm   0:00.00 diskutil info -plist /dev/disk3

I would assume parsing the output goes wrong. Here's output from diskutil info -plist /dev/disk3 2>&1 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' http://ix.io: http://ix.io/1gfb

Please note that diskutil info -plist outputs to stderr while diskutil info outputs to stdout. So maybe a simple redirect 2>&1 will already fix it?

[ThomasKaiser]

Please note that diskutil info -plist outputs to stderr while diskutil info outputs to stdout.

Hmm... nope, tested again and that was wrong (obviously no output one time reported by curl which led to my wrong assumption). Anyway: attached an external card reader to my more recent MacBook and here 1.4.4 works.

Old MacBook:

bash-3.2# sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.10.5
BuildVersion:   14F2511

New MacBook (where 1.4.x works):

bash-3.2# sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.13.5
BuildVersion:   17F77

diskutil info -plist /dev/disk2 2>&1 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' http://ix.io (on 10.13 now): http://ix.io/1gfn

[ThomasKaiser]

Other difference between my old MacBook and my new one (with external card reader attached):

Old (no Removable* occurences):

<key>Internal</key>
<true/>

New:

<key>Internal</key>
<false/>
<key>Removable</key>
<true/>
<key>RemovableMedia</key>
<true/>
<key>RemovableMediaOrExternalDevice</key>
<true/>

[ThomasKaiser]

Took some time but now I did the obvious: Using my external card reader on my old MacBook (the one running with 10.10.5 with an internal reader). No problem with Etcher 1.4.x recognizing the card.

• External card reader: diskutil info -plist /dev/disk2 2>&1 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' http://ix.io: http://ix.io/1gqI
• Internal card reader: diskutil info -plist /dev/disk3 2>&1 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' http://ix.io: http://ix.io/1gqJ

So now it seems to me that the problem with 1.4.x only affects the internal card reader of older MacBooks? BTW: I really like the internal card reader since my external reader is crap.

[lurch]

@ThomasKaiser Great debugging work. Etcher actually uses https://github.com/resin-io-modules/drivelist to list the drives, so I suspect if you can repeat your testing with that, it might make it easier for @jhermsmeier to work out what fixes are needed :slightly_smiling_face:

[ThomasKaiser]

Etcher actually uses https://github.com/resin-io-modules/drivelist to list the drives

Thanks for the hint.

By looking at http://ix.io/1gqJ and http://ix.io/1gfb I would assume this is the culprit (interpreting SD cards in a MacBook's internal SD card slot being system disks?)

If that's the case checking for isUSB could be a solution?

[jhermsmeier]

Thanks @ThomasKaiser, that data will be very helpful!

[shawaj]

@ThomasKaiser @volare71 can you test on the latest version v1.5.112?

[ThomasKaiser]

Nope

[shawaj]

@ThomasKaiser does your "Nope" mean you won't try it or you have tried it and it isn't working?

[ThomasKaiser]

@shawaj I neither use the laptop from 2.5 years ago nor Etcher any more. So no testing from my side.

[shawaj]

@ThomasKaiser thanks for the clarification 👍