I have a toshiba satelite 205 that has a SD slot. When I insert the card to transfer files I get the error: Semaphore time period has expired......
I read somewhere that if you lock the card that you can view the files, but you still cannot write to or from the disk. Does anyone know of a fix for this? Please help, I really need to use this disk.

Hi Ishead!!

I went to toshiba's website and it gives instructions on how to use the card reader properly. I am wondering has the card reader ever worked for you before? How old is the laptop? Maybe it's under warrenty? Need some info to help you out. Thanks

Raj

The laptop is less than a year old. I successfully used the sd card with a usb card reader so I know the card is ok. I don't own the usb card reader (borrowed it from a friend) and I would like to be able to use the one built into the laptop. I have also gotten the same error when trying to use a usb thumb drive which I have two of and one of them works fine. The SD card was formatted when I used it in my kodak camera and the thumb drive was formatted when i used it to use files from another pc.

There is a patch from MS concerning SD card readers. Try finding the issue.

I downloaded the patch from ms for the sd card issue and it failed to install saying this update does not apply to my system