Re: [GTALUG] Removing write protection from MicroSD card?

2018-02-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 01:21:34AM -0500, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > One basic check to do is make sure the file system on the device isn't > corrupt. If it is that could account for it being mounted read-only. I can't even overwrite the entire card using dd. It's not the filesystem that is r

Re: [GTALUG] Removing write protection from MicroSD card?

2018-02-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 07:04:13PM -0200, Mauro Souza wrote: > Micro SD don't have a switch, so it's on firmware or something like that. > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138518/how-to-format-write-protected-sd-card > says hdparm can help. Unfortunately I suspect that at least in my case

Re: [GTALUG] Removing write protection from MicroSD card?

2018-02-03 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2018-02-02 04:00 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 01:21:39PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: Hey there. Subject says it. Regular SD cards have a physical switch but MicroSD don't, yet I can't use this because it's reported as write protected. > I have a ca

Re: [GTALUG] Removing write protection from MicroSD card?

2018-02-02 Thread Mauro Souza via talk
Micro SD don't have a switch, so it's on firmware or something like that. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138518/how-to-format-write-protected-sd-card says hdparm can help. On Feb 2, 2018 19:00, "Lennart Sorensen via talk" wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 01:21:39PM -0500, Evan Leibovit

Re: [GTALUG] Removing write protection from MicroSD card?

2018-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 01:21:39PM -0500, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hey there. Subject says it. > Regular SD cards have a physical switch but MicroSD don't, yet I can't use > this because it's reported as write protected. > > Any suggestions? Is it a micro-brick? I have a card in that sta