SD Card Slot Disappears After Sleep (Gone Until Reboot)

That is my bug report. I have been since March trying to make Apple give a solution. They have eventually said that they cannot reproduce it (really?...)

I pointed them to this thread and told them to check it for themselves, I also sent them some screenshots and Windows Event Logs to see if that helps... Fingers crossed, Windows 10 w/ Bootcamp 6 and issue is still present

There is an updated SCSI driver, but unfortunately it is not properly signed in W10. There are many threads regarding AppleSSD.sys. To install W10 (and get around the driver signature issue), users have deleted this driver and then managed to install W10, but have left this finger cut off. Did you have to delete this driver as well?

I'm pretty sure this is not a Windows problem: I have the same issue in OSX (10.10.3 - Mid 2014 Retina MacBookPro). I didn't read about the difference between sleep and deep sleep in this thread, the latter occurs to save power after several hours of normal sleep. My SD card is always there after a short periode of normal sleep, but never after a longer periode of deep sleep: not in Disk Utility, but not even when I re-insert the card. I almost seems like power to the hardware component is cut off after deep sleep.

fond this and by me works

Type this in terminal:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext

This will unload and load the card reader kernel drivers, and it will appear in diskutil and finder again.

thx toCoolkcaH

lucian_ wrote:

Type this in terminal:

sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext; sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCardReader.kext

This is valid for OSX, Windows is a different OS and the issue is related to Windows.

Lordvampire I hope you get this. I too am on macbook air 2013 6,2 on arch. Just to reiterate your solution, which sounds plausible, I need to recompile kernel without the xhci_hcd. Then I'd manually run a modprobe on xorg startup and enable a pre-suspend service and post-suspend service that would rmmod and modprobe correct?

Do you have a github with these scripts/services? Or a way I can PM you? my github is frank604 and my blog is frankshin (dot) com

Nevermind my last post. I compiled without xhci_hcd. Manually load via /etc/modules.load.d/ then use systemd-suspend-modules from AUR and added two lines xhci_pci and xhci_hcd. Now the sdcard issue is resolved and confirmed. Thank you LordVampire for that solution. It probably won't help our windows brothers but it certainly helps on linux! I added binary packages on my github for custom kernel, broadcom-wl, and mba6x_bl as well as how to on my github and blog. Hope this helps someone.

lom1980 wrote:

Today I got a reply that my reported bug was a duplicate to bug id 20086018. Is there a possibility for me to have a look at bug id 20086018 in the apple bug tracker?

I have the same problem with my sd card slot under windows 8.1 ,bootcamp 6 .

Did anyone manage to have a look at bug id 20086018 on bug reporter?

Any workarounds or fixes yet?

Today is 2015/12/20.

My macbook is late 2013 rMBP running Windows 10 x64 version1511, with latest BootCamp driver.

SAME as you.. I've tried every method in this thread, no luck.

I really doubt if APPLE takes this bug seriouly. I am quite sure my next laptop will not be a mac.

Apple ***.

0) all below problems appeared after upgrading from yosomite to el capitan

1) i confirm this bug is reproducable in latest El Capitan 10.11.3 and Windows 10 with latest update on my macbook pro 13 retina 2015 2.7ghz i5, 8gb ram, 228gb ssd.

the sd card will occasionally dissapear from both os x or windows after sleep/reboot/shutdown.

windows show exclamaitoon in device dispatcher with usb error unrecognizeable instead of apple sd card reader.

usually magc happens after reseting pram or smc after it sd card usually appears correct.

2) i guess this bug somehow correlates with ocassionally slow boot after beep sound and apple/windows logo apperars it usuallu must take 2-5 seconds, but sometimes it takes 20-60 seconds to load.

also reseting pram/smc helps for 1 boot for sure the rest are occasionally slow.

3) if you turn on faultdrive or smtj like that drive encryption - youneill get also 2)-occasionalky slow boot + lag in mouse move and keybord events on login screen or while holding alt button durig load - os boot selection also lag in mouse move and keybord events. it will take 2-10 minutes to boot if you could even do it. instlling el capitan without encryption cures only lags - 3).

regards,

Dmitri

If anybody still having this issue, there is Windows hotfix for this issue and it works perfectly.

The issue occurs on Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 (which is based on 8.1) and can be fixed installing KB2995388 (technically 2990172 is the one, but its not released by single. 2995388 is the package includes 2990172) released on Oct 2014.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2995388

I hope this will helpful.

'anybody' is very likely to be using a different windows operating system to the two you've mentioned, and if a 2-year old windows patch fixed the problem, surely the world's most expensive laptop wouldn't suffer these symptoms?

This is a major problem for me, a showstopper. And it's by no means the fault of the posters in this thread that we still don't know what the problem actually is, nor why the peculiar characteristics occur (I too have seen the 'remount' after some considerable time, why does this occur? and under what circumstances does it NOT occur? There's clearly a windows service that's checking for this problem and trying to remount, but its next to useless because it takes so long.....is it a bootcamp thing? or MS?)

After investing a considerable amount to get a setup with a retina macbook and windows 10, I'm totally shocked by this widely reported and long-time unfixed bug.

No matter which side did more to cause the issue, Apple need to fix this.

Nope, I don't wish to do that. This is an astonishing 3+ year old driver bug which users in this thread have found against multiple operating systems. I expect working drivers, from Apple. Can someone post legitimate links to where apple are dealing with this problem, I don't any real information about this issue being dealt with: where are the filed bugs, the responses?

towoode wrote:

Nope, I don't wish to do that. This is an astonishing 3+ year old driver bug which users in this thread have found against multiple operating systems. I expect working drivers, from Apple. Can someone post legitimate links to where apple are dealing with this problem, I don't any real information about this issue being dealt with: where are the filed bugs, the responses?

Each bug filed by an individual is not publicly visible. The reporter should provide updates.

As the Windows patches/KBs show, it is not a driver issue, but a Kernel issue. From https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2990172 ,

Do you still think this is a Driver Issue?

That KB is about SD cards not being recognized on win 8, the problem we are having is that the card reader disappears entirely on any version of windows, and various other operating systems on all models of retina macbook with a specific chipset.