On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:57:04 -0700 Dale Snell <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:20:58 -0700 >John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. Which reader does lspci say you have? And which module does lsmod say you are using? >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 Just tried it. I used black plastic electrical tape. The first problem is that I had to force it slightly to get it into the port. There must not be a lot of clearance. And after it mounted it was still read-only. Then I had to use tweezers to pull it back out again. This is a micro SD card in an adapter. I assume you meant to put the tape on the adapter, since there is definitely not enough clearance to put it on the micro SD card itself. Besides, only the adapter has a slider. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
