Hi, this happened with a 16GB Sandisk SDHC card, and a TI tifm_7xx1 host if, originally with 3.13.0 (ubuntu 14.4), but should also happen with latest kernel. Jul 15 06:54:29 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 76.695120] tifm_7xx1 0000:08:03.2: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Jul 15 06:54:29 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 76.719492] tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1 Jul 15 06:54:29 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 77.029932] mmc0: new SDHC card at address aaaa Jul 15 06:54:29 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 77.039647] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SS16G 14.8 GiB Jul 15 06:54:29 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 77.050276] mmcblk0: p1 p2 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336053] tifm_sd0:1 : card failed to respond for a long period of time (19, 1) Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336273] tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:1 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336388] mmc0: card aaaa removed Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336479] mmcblk0: error -123 sending status command, retrying Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336615] mmcblk0: error -123 sending status command, retrying Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336747] mmcblk0: error -123 sending status command, aborting Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.336879] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 29362176 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337012] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 0 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337138] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337173] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 29362184 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337303] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 1 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337429] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337449] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 29362192 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337578] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 2 Jul 15 06:55:55 tobias-VGN-N11M-W kernel: [ 173.337704] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2 the following patch fixed the time out for me: diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/tifm_sd.c b/drivers/mmc/host/tifm_sd.c index 93c4b40..84c3f80 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/tifm_sd.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/tifm_sd.c @@ -964,7 +964,7 @@ static int tifm_sd_probe(struct tifm_dev *sock) host = mmc_priv(mmc); tifm_set_drvdata(sock, mmc); host->dev = sock; - host->timeout_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(1000); + host->timeout_jiffies = msecs_to_jiffies(10000); tasklet_init(&host->finish_tasklet, tifm_sd_end_cmd, (unsigned long)host); An interesting fact is, that it did alwas only happen with cmd19 which is send tuning block.