[nmglug] weird memory card behavior

[nick pitlosh]

FAT of these types should not have user data of any type.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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