On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 10:06 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: > I understand that the write-protect tab on SD cards is optional: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#Optional_write-protect_tab > > However, when I use an SD card without a tab (no tab at all) on my > Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server, it mounts it as read-only (ro) and > absolutely refuses to mount read-write (rw) even if the -force option > is used. It will only mount cards as read-write, for cards which have > a tab and where the tab is set to the "unlock" position. > > On my MS-Windows machine (which I only otherwise use for gaming... > honest) this does not happen. It obeys the spec and mounts as > read-write for cards which have no tab. >
<snip> When you insert it into your ubuntu machine can you produce a dmesg output? I've had one or two that wouldn't mount rw because of inconsistances in the filesystem. They mounted fine after an fsck. -Matt Daubney
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