An SD card's write protect feature is implemented in hardware on the card and cannot be defeated by software in the card reader or camera.
There's no reason an M8 should be so fragile or impossible to fix. Lots of people are getting excellent service out of their M8s without these kinds of sensitivities to which card is used. And there's certainly no reason for Jeffery's customer service experience. While most companies are poor on returning telephone calls these days, a courteous and prompt response via email to a customer with a $5000 purchase problem in their hand is the norm that I've experienced. Go for it, Jeffery. :-) Godfrey On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:06 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK the write protect is like that on an old 3 1/2 inch floppy. Leica > would have to write the firmware patch as the firmware resides entirely in > the camera. That is if the card-reader itself doesn't have it's own > inviolable firmware. . > > > On 5/29/2012 7:11 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote: >> >> I wrote to Leica last night, telling them the sordid history of my M8s. >> The card fail defect seems to be extremely common. I suggested a firmware >> upgrade thst bypasses the write protect feature altogether. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> Jeffery L. Smith >> New Orleans, Louisiana >> USA >> ... -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
