[nmglug] weird memory card behavior

[Rob Haag]

Did you check if you slid the 'lock' switch on the side of the card to the
'lock' position? ...is it a full size SD card?

Rob

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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