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Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux?

From	philo <"philo "@privacy.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage, comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux?
Date	2012-11-05 15:12 -0600
Organization	dis
Message-ID	<k79a4g$a0m$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 11/05/2012 02:19 PM, Ant wrote:
>>> I got a bunch of old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards (16 MB to 1
>>> GB), that were used for old Palm smartphones and PDAs. I thought maybe I
>>> could use them in Linux. I also have an internal memory card reader to
>>> handle them on my Debian stable (Kernel v2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Sep
>>> 23 10:07:46 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux) desktop computer.
>>>
>>> They can be read and accessed, but I cannot seem to write to them like
>>> deleting, formatting (even when unmounted), adding files, etc. in my old
>>> Gnome v2.3.20 desktop. Am I missing something? :( FYI, dmesg/messages of
>>> my attempts to use them fully can be found in
>>> http://filebin.ca/LVns4B1M79U/log.txt (over a MB).
>
>> Did you check the write protect switch on the side of the sd card?
>
> Uh, where? Here's the thing. I have no problems with them in Mac OS X
> 10.8.2 and Windows XP Pro. SP3 through their USB memory card readers!
>


Then you must be mounting them as read-only ?

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Thread

Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-04 17:10 -0800
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? miso <miso@sushi.com> - 2012-11-04 23:05 -0800
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 04:12 -0800
      Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? miso <miso@sushi.com> - 2012-11-06 18:24 -0800
        Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 22:38 -0800
          Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? miso <miso@sushi.com> - 2012-11-06 22:50 -0800
            Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-10 08:43 -0800
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-05 03:29 -0500
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2012-11-05 14:19 -0600
      Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? philo  <"philo  "@privacy.net> - 2012-11-05 15:12 -0600
        Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 04:12 -0800
          Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? philo  <"philo  "@privacy.net> - 2012-11-07 11:37 -0600
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-11-05 19:21 -0500
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-06 04:16 -0800
  Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2012-11-07 08:39 -0600
    Re: Writing/Erasing/Formatting old Mini and regular sized SD memory cards in Linux? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2012-11-10 08:44 -0800

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