[nmglug] weird memory card behavior

[Rob Haag]

Check this out
http://activerain.com/blogsview/1239207/memory-card-is-locked-error-message,
this is what has given me the same situation...if the camera won't write to
it then this is the thing to check first. The switch sometimes gets
activated taking the card in/out of a device.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

> **
> It is fat32 according to disk utility and I can't alter it in anyway
> without getting a "read-only" error. I tried with GParted and disk utility.
> In disk utility I get the read-only or "the daemon is inhibited". I cannot
> format it in the camera without getting the read-only message.
>
>
> On 02/09/2012 05:35 PM, nick pitlosh 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> <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> <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> <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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