read only SD card

[Colin Law]

On 11 May 2014 16:43, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
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>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu>
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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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> I can delete/cut files.  I can not place a file on it.

It is not a good idea to put comments after the two minuses, they
indicate the start of the signature so may get hidden or even deleted.

If you use cp in a terminal to copy to it do you get an error message?
 Or alternatively what is the error when you try to do it in nautilus?

Colin