[nmglug] weird memory card behavior

[nick pitlosh]

theres a few kinds of FAT one of which supports posix type extensions,
its probable that the camera can only work with the legacy fat32 you
need to check the fs type

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:03 PM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
> running Ubuntu 10.10 on my toshiba satellite laptop.
>
> I have a 4 gig flash card for my camera and have been putting it into the
> card reader to download photos, no problem. Today i downloaded some pix and
> reinserted the card into the camera and now I am getting a message on the
> screen of the Nikon that says the memory card is write protected and is
> read-only. I checked permissions on the card and ran this to try and clean
> them up:
>
> sudo chown -R username:username /dev/sdb1
>
> Now it shows up as writaable by me but I still get the error with the
> camera.
>
> What is up? any ideas how I can fix this and use the card in my camera?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
>
> _______________________________________________
> nmglug mailing list
> nmglug at lists.nmglug.org
> http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org
>