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I have a macbook pro retina, 15" mid 2015. I have a flush mounted sd card caddy that has all my media and never comes out. After installing the Monterey update 12.0.1 the machine gives me an error message after waking from sleep, about the sd card not being ejected properly. I have never needed to eject this card in the past before sleeping. What's up?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.0
How is the card formatted?
Try the following: boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
How is the card formatted?
Try the following: boot into Safe Mode according to Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support and test to see if the problem persists. Reboot normally and test again.
NOTE: Safe Mode boot can take up to 3 - 5 minutes as it's doing the following;
• Verifies your startup disk and attempts to repair directory issues, if needed
• Loads only required kernel extensions (prevents 3rd party kernel/extensions from loading)
• Prevents Startup Items and Login Items from opening automatically
• Disables user-installed fonts
• Deletes font caches, kernel cache, and other system cache files
Hello! I had the same issue on mbp 13" retina mid 2015. Yesterday, I tried to turn off a checkbox "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" in System Preferences->Battery->{Battery;Power Adapter} sections. And it seems like it works for me. My SD card no longer fails after waking up.
If you are still on 12.0.1 try updating to 12.1 which was released 12/13/2021
LubosF wrote:
Same issue on my MacBook Pro 13" Early 2015. SMC reset did not help. Every MacOS update is bringing more and more problems with my MacBook...
I was very hopeful, however the new update 12.1 did not fix this problem... MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, mid 2015, 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7. I have a flush mounted micro SD tray with a 511.84 GB card inserted in the slot. It is formatted, "Journaled HFS+", and I have been using it for photo, movie and music storage for over a year with no problem. That is until installing the 12.01 and now 12.1 updates (even Monterey 12 worked fine with my config). When the machine sleeps, upon waking up I get a bogus error message, about not ejecting the card before quitting. The card then mounts and appears to be, and works fine, but I am concerned about potential damage to the card. If the machine sleeps through the night in the morning it appears to have periodically attempted addressing the card and there will be 2 or 3 of the same message. I was considering getting a 1TB card and don't want to damage a new card! I have tried all the suggestions in this forum to no avail. Thanks for the rant that probably won't be seen by anybody...
I’m facing the very same issue on my Macbook Pro 13” 2015.
I’ve been using a flush-mount SD card inserted in the slot as “permanent” storage for documents and multimedia files for a long time without any problem until I updated (from macOS Big Sur 11.6.1) to macOS Monterey 12.1.
This must be a software issue or bug in Monterey for sure so let’s push Apple to fix it ASAP in a new macOS version (12.1.1?). Nobody wants to damage their SD cards and loose their data.
I am experiencing the same thing. It is so frustrating!!! My Macbook Pro 2015 does not recognise my Transcend SD card at all since upgrading to Mac Monterey. All my important docs are on this SD card, and I use it for most of my storage. I really wish I didn't upgrade...
As a work-a-round the only thing that keeps my system working despite the sleep/dismount internal card problem is a utility called "Clean My Drive2" which allows you to click a preference box that keeps the drive mounted. The system still attempts to dismount the drive while the machine sleeps, but when you wake it up, you get the dismount warning but the system instantly mounts the drive. It seems to be working fine without any other problems, you can't keep an application open if it is accessing the drive, it will crash when the drive sleeps/"dismounts" which might cause file corruption -- but just quit appropriate apps before sleeping. I keep all my photos and music/movies on the drive. It would still be much better if they fixed this problem.
I have a related problem. My MacBook takes very long time to boot presumably because of the SD card reader. I have booted in verbose mode (see https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/08/17/how-to-boot-your-mac-in-verbose-mode/). While booting, it hangs up for a long time and then outputs:
00003D.707082 SSP301460DBDD: AppleUSBHostPort::terminateDevice: destroying 0x05ac/8406/0820 (Internal Memory Card Reader): port is powering off
Unfortunately, I don't have a ready available SD card to test the reader. My MacBook Pro is a 2015 model A1502. Did someone else experience a similar issue?
I have a 2019 27" iMac and just updated to 12.2.1 and now it will not recognize my SD card using the SD card slot on the iMac. It was fine in prior OS. I tested the card in a dock and no issue. I booted from an external drive that had Mojave and no issue reading the card from the slot so it has to be a Monterey issue.
I have/had the same issue.
I checked my sleepmode settings and figured out that I set them to hibernatemode 25. Set them back to hibernatemode 0 (standard sleep) and the SD card won't get ejected anymore....at least it solved the issue for me (for now)
Hello! Try to make SMC reset. This helped my MBP 13" early 2015.
If you are developer you can file a bug reports.
Us mortals can send feedback:
Cum să resetezi controlerul SMC pe computerul Mac - Apple Support (RO)
this solved ur probelm
What concerns me is this potentially damaging my card? I don't want that!
This is happening to me as well... I'm going to try to turn off a checkbox "Put hard disks to sleep when possible"... I hope this method doesn't create battery drain issue.. :(
Monterey update and internal SD card slot
