Comment 2 for bug 301932

A couple of things. The example fdisk was run against the wrong drive. It was run against sda (which is the main hard drive) as opposed to sdb (which is the sd reader). Second, have you tried multiple sd cards? Those errors initially make me suspect the media.

For what it's worth, I'm running 2.6.27-8-eeepc on the eeepc 1000HD and the sd reader works just fine. It presents as a usb mass media drive on sdb just like yours is trying to.