Tomasz Machnik wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:55:03 -0500 > Doug Franklin (Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > >>Shel Belinkoff wrote: >> >> >>>I wonder if there's a way to set >>>the card permanently in the unlocked position. >> >>Push it to the unlocked position. >> >>Very carefully, with a really sharp knife, carve of any part of the >>"tab" that extends beyond the interior of the case. > > > ...and this will _lock_ the card permanently. > > There is no switch inside the card. The tab, when in unlocked position, > activates a switch in the socket, allowing the card to be writable. > No tab = card read only. > > here's something that can be handy 'on location', in emergency with no > shops in sight and with your OTG drive safe at home - as it > happened to me: > You need to put a matching bit in place of the broken/lost tab in > unlocked position (covering top half of the notch). I used a bit of > cigarette box (Chesterfield it was i think :), placed it in the slot > where the tab was and secured with superglue. Card is still fine (over > a year).
Czesc, Tomasz 8-) Interesting. The switch fails safe to preserve files on the card. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
