We boot a couple of older eee PCs from SD cards, my dude has a 8gb one that he uses for the filesystem and updates the Ubuntu install on periodically. I have an MSI that quite happily reads SanDisk and other brands in Ubuntu but my sister's Acer has a long history of Not Working. No hardware support for it at all. My Droid Pro and the HTC Eris I had will mount the phone as a filesystem quite happily in Ubuntu, I connect it with the usb cable and it will open up a file browser. The irony being that I can't get the phone to mount in Windows, I have to remove the card and stick it in an adapter. On Oct 11, 2011 7:21 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:01:49 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >It would be interesting to try it in laptops running other distros. > >However, I did try live CDs of Lucid and Knoppix with and it was always > >read-only. And my GRML rescue CD also saw it as read-only. > > > >By the end of the day I hope to know how it mounts on a Windows > >laptop. > > So today I went to PSU for class and took the SD card with me to see > what happened on Windows computers. First I went to the graduate > computer lab in the basement of Smith. They have some <very nice> Macs > which have an SD card reader built in, whereas for the Windows > computers you need to go to the support desk and check out a USB SD > card reader. I opted for the Mac. > > The Mac mounted it automatically, and it was read-write. So (after > fumbling around the Mac GUI) I found a utility to reformat it. > Unfortunately, the only choices were several different Mac filesystem > formats plus "FAT (MSDOS)." It didn't even say what flavor of FAT, nor > did it have any option to make it bootable or other choices. I went > ahead and formatted it FAT, and it finished without incident. > > I had to go to class, but later I came back and tried the USB SD card > reader with a Windows computer. This offered me FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and > something else (forgot). I decided to format it NTFS just because I > thought that it might be more likely wipe any evil stuff that SanDisk > had put on the device. It finished the formatting without incident. > > I was unable to find any Linux computers on campus that I had access > to. Not being a computer science major I am not allowed to use > computers in the CS department. > > I am now home. I put the card into my Fedora 14 Thinkpad and got it > recognized, even though it was NTFS. Using Gparted I attempted to > format it, but I got the same error message as before: The device is > read-only. > > There remain three possibilities: > > 1) The card reader in the Thinkpad is flaky > 2) The adapter is flaky. > 3) Linux is flaky. > > Further testing will require finding a Linux computer that has an SD > card slot (capable of > 4GB), and that is -Thinkpad, -Fedora. In the > meantime, does anyone else have an SD card that is working in a Linux > computer? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
