<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bruce Labitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net" target="_blank">bruce.labitt@myfairpoint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1wt" class="" style="overflow:hidden">. I wanted to copy my data<br>
from another SDHC card to it. The card seems to be locked, and is<br>
preventing writing to the card - although the little slider is set to<br>
the unlocked position. Short of returning the card, which may be my<br>
best option, what can I do to check that the card is actually ok, or my<br>
laptop's SD card reader is at fault.<br>
<br>
I checked the properties of the card - it is set to user -</div></blockquote></div><br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Check the 'dmesg -T', 'mount', 'hdparm', 'fdisk -l', and '/var/log/messages' output for clues. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>Some distros default fat, vfat, ntfs file-systems to read-only for safety, don't know if that's your case. Devices also remount r/o on error. If 'mount' reports 'ro', but no errors listed, a 'mount --options remount,rw' should work.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Sometimes a specific reader doesn't like a specific card, so try another one. E.g., my USB hub has slots for everything, but the uSD slot isn't reliable.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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