Paul, If the lockout tab has failed, the card likely has a hardware lockout that prevents any kind of software permissions reset.
Godfrey On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I managed to open my card and remove the button that was stock inside. > I then reassembled the card with cyanoacrylite glue. It goes in the > camera fine, but it still says it's locked. And it has no lock button. > I'm going to try to unlock it on the computer as described by Juan > Buhler the other day. > Paul > On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:17 PM, mike wilson wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
