[nmglug] weird memory card behavior

[nick pitlosh]

you need to zero out the partition table and format it in the camera.
thats the most straightforward way.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:28 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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