[plug] usb card reader

[Shayne O'Neill]

my understanding is these cards are just FAT file systems

perhaps its as easy as flippin the bits across to rw?

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On Fri, 7 May 2004, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> Have a bit of a weird problem
>
> I used a usb 3 in 1 reader to back up some files onto a 256M SD card a
> few weeks back.  Worked fine at the time, but the person I did this for
> has just come back and said that the card plugged into it is now read
> only under windows.
>
> Sure enough, it mounts read only under linux (fedora and the original
> laptop which is gentoo), and can only be forced to rw as a remount.  The
> lock is "off"
>
> There are a few references to this on the net, but they are of no use or
> in German etc.
>
> Has anyone stumbled across this before?
>
> BillK
>
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