Re: SD-Card readonly

=?ISO-8859-15?Q?R=FCdiger?= Wenzel <ruwenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in news:e96loh$o8q$1@xxxxxxxxx:

Miguel De Anda wrote:

Rüdiger Wenzel wrote:

Hi, can anybody out there help? Is there any brute-force-way to
remove write-protection from a SD-Card connected via USB as
/media/usbdisk? I've tried to change the settings as root, tried to
re-format that ***card- nothing worked. The read-only-status was
somehow, without my intention, set to the SD-Card when I copied some
picture-files on it from my machine running under SuSE 10.0 with a
cheap chinese cardreader. Maybe this chinese rubbish is to blame,
because I've copied files to that SD-Card before with a different
card-reader, and everything worked fine....

Regards

Maybe you should buy a Taiwanese reader instead. SD cards have a lock
built in, kinda like floppies. Or possibly you had problems with
floppies as well.



Hi Miguel

thanks for the hint with the Taiwanese cardreader. Really good idea,
indeed ;-)

Do you really think I don't know about the the mechanical lock built
in SD-Cards? But actually, I took a very close look at that lock and
found it damaged: the outer part of it was almost broken off, hiding
that the remaining inner part was in "locked" position. I changed it
and fixed it with a drop of glue. I wonder how long this will work..

Regards

Rüdiger

Geez, that never happened to floppies - the metal ring in the middle
came loose so the disk would wobble, but never that. I still say
floppies (read 5 1/4) are the most reliable long lasting media: you'll
keep them in the case because of the read hole and they can't be damaged
by dust. CD's damage if you put them down the wrong way (ok, takes
*several* times, but still).

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