sudo fdisk -l Shows formatted disks, even those unmounted, including sdcards, in my experience. No SD cards on my system, but here is example output:
> $ sudo fdisk -l > > [sudo] password for pat: > > >> Disk /dev/sda: 400.1 GB, 400088457216 bytes > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > > Disk identifier: 0x12141214 > > >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 47896 384724588+ 83 Linux > > /dev/sda2 47897 48641 5984182 5 Extended > > /dev/sda5 47897 48641 5984181 82 Linux swap / >> Solaris > > Good Luck -- Pat On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 7:13 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:47:36 -0700 > Fernando Freire <[email protected]> dijo: > > >This may seem silly to suggest, but have you could attempt to throw up > >a quick Windows VM and see if you have RW access to the drive then. > >May not be optimal, but at least it'll get you support from SanDisk? > > Oh, I already have Windows 2000 and Windows XP installed in Virtualbox. > And I already tried them. They both saw the device as read-only. But > that doesn't prove much, since the virtual machines depend on Virtualbox > to tell them what is on the drives, and Virtualbox just reports what > Linux tells it. Or maybe they see the drive directly, but whatever they > see still can't be more than what the host OS (Linux) sees. In any > event, I tried to copy a file to the card while in Windows, and Windows > said it could not because the drive was read-only. I didn't try > formatting with Windows. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- [email protected] www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
