Full size SD cards have a slider to set the card to read-only. The adapters for putting Micro SD cards into a full size slot also sometimes have the slider. Something to check if it applies.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 6:17 PM Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > My Samsung tablet complained there there was a problem with the SD card, > and it had been switched to read-only. > > "No problem.", I thought, "I'll put it in my Linux machine, run fsck on > it, and get it up and running in no time!" > > Nope, after a few hours of being frustrated that Linux's ability to do > exfat is apparently incomplete (grr) I keep futzing… > > I finally realized that it was not a case of the file system having > problems, it is a case of the SD card itself concluding that it is not > healthy and setting a one-time read-only bit. Linux can't change that > bit because the firmware on the SD card refuses. > > > Okay…time to back up and then restore to another SD card. > > > We'll see, > > -kb > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
