On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:47:11 -0700 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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: > > >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? lspci reports: "SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)" According to lsmod, the Dell is using mmc_core, which is used by ssb and sdhci. Sdhci is used by sdhci_pci; sdhci and ssb are leaves on the tree. (I'm not sure what ssb is for; I'm including it for the sake of completeness.) > > ... 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. Yeah, electrical tape is probably a bit much. I just used a single layer of cellophane tape. > 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. Exactly. I have an adapter (SanDisk no less, with a SanDisk micro SD card in it), and three normal SD cards. I've had to tape the adapter and two of the normal cards. The adapter's lock slider is so loose that gravity is almost enough to cause it to move. Not much of a record, is it? --Dale -- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. -- Lord Acton _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
