On 8/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm interested to hear that anything outside of the SD card has a choice > in the matter. There was a time when hardware write-protection of this kind > was exactly that: harware-enforced write-protection. I would have expected > that, if I put the switch on an SD card into the "write-protected" position, > the card itself would disable or ignore write operations (by, for example, > disabling whatever line/signal is used to perform the write operation). >
Nope, the specs leave it up to the device to implement, kind of like the old notch on floppies ;-) >From the Nokia n800 user manual: This device does not support the write protection feature of SD cards. I don't believe the write protection switch was part of the original MMC card design specs was it? I'm not "in the loop" but it's only recently I started seeing cards with the switch. I'm assuming it sets some bit somewhere to tell the hardware "Hey, leave me alone" which Maemo promptly ignores.
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