read only SD card

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick
<garyartista at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu>wrote:
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>> I would unmount the SD card under your problematic user account and
>> run "hdparm -r0 /dev/sda" as root. That will force the kernel to
>> recognize the RO switch on the SD card as being off. Then try to mount
>> the card manually. I would be curious to see if you encounter any
>> errors.
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>> Brandon Vincent
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> gave it a try and get same "read only" message
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> gary14 at gary14:~$ sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sda
> [sudo] password for gary14:
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> /dev/sda:
>  setting readonly to 0 (off)
>  readonly      =  0 (off)
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> thanks
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> garyk
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I can delete/cut files.  I can not place a file on it.


garyk
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