On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:58 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, with a built-in SD card port. It's running Fedora 14, and has no trouble reading and writing SD cards. One thing I have had to do is tape over the write lock tabs on the cards. Fortunately, these things are the equivalent of the write protect notch on floppy disks; they don't affect the the memory card proper. My experience is that the things don't stay put; when I insert a card into the Dell's reader, it slips into the "Locked" position. By covering the Lock tab over with tape, the reader hardware is fooled into thinking that the card is writeable. Just like floppies. :-P --Dale -- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree But only if the NFL to a franchise would agree. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
