Memory Card Reader problems

I have seen this problem for a long time on Arch. This was occuring when I used an external SCSI memory card reader, and now I notice the same thing with my new linux box which has an internal 15-in-1 card reader connect to the USB card. It goes like this ...
When I insert the card, my KDE desktop fails to notice it. When I open a terminal and run dmesg, nothing relevant shows up. When I attempt to mount the device, I'm told it doesn't exist. After some passage of time, it will still fail, unless I do a fdisk on that device to see if fdisk sees it. Sometimes it takes a few fdisks to find it, but eventually it seems to find it. At that point I can mount the device. But one thing that has been true in the past as well as the present ... I must issue a fdisk command for that device (and then exit fdisk) before Arch Linux ever sees the device. This has been true since 0.6x Arch, and now true of 0.72 Arch, on two different boxes and with two different card readers.

i had this prob ages ago. was even convinced it was some physical slots that were broke, (rear slots worked fronts didnt )or one particular cardreader (gtech 21-in-1) as it glitched under windows too.
at some point tho, in Arch anyways, the problem went away, and i think now it was more to do with modules and confs and it got solved more by tinkering than knowing what was what definitively. we live and learn
maybe try as su - root lsmod |grep usb
my reply is
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod |grep usb
usb_storage 78656 0
usbhid 47392 0
usbserial 29260 0
usbcore 116256 7 ohci_hcd,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,usbserial
ide_core 116940 29
usb_storage,ide_scsi,ide_floppy,ide_cd,ide_disk,via82cxxx,trm290,
triflex,slc90e66,sis5513,siimage,serverworks,
sc1200,rz1000,piix,pdc202xx_old,pdc202xx_new,ns87415,
it821x,hpt366,hpt34x,generic,cy82c693,cs5530,cmd64x,atiixp,
amd74xx,alim15x3,aec62xx
(ide_core line reformatted so page isnt a mile wide.)
also, check in rc.conf MODULES for usbserial and if theres a ! in front of it, remove it.

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