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Title: SD Card mounts in Read-Only mode
Post by: gami on February 10, 2004, 05:59:52 pm

Hello Everyone,

need a little help. for some reason, my SD card is mounting in read-only mode. I tried forcing it in read-write mode, but that doesnt work.

what do i need to check/do to fix this ?

any help would be appreciated.

regards,
Gami

Title: SD Card mounts in Read-Only mode
Post by: bb on February 10, 2004, 11:34:14 pm

Quote

Hello Everyone,
need a little help. for some reason, my SD card is mounting in read-only mode. I tried forcing it in read-write mode, but that doesnt work.
what do i need to check/do to fix this ?

I\'ve experienced my SD card toggling from being rw-mounted to ro-mounted when I had a problem with it because of a write gone bad.
In the end I had to re-format the card. After that I experienced no problems.
# umount /mnt/card
# mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1

Title: SD Card mounts in Read-Only mode
Post by: lardman on February 11, 2004, 11:58:01 am

before you re-format try: fsck /dev/mmcda1 (you need to unmount it first as shown above).

Si

Title: SD Card mounts in Read-Only mode
Post by: sefthuko on June 16, 2004, 11:25:51 pm

I type in:
fsck.vfat /dev/mmcda1

And receive:

dosfsck 2.8, 28 Feb 2001, FAT32, LFN

Got 0 bytes instead of 512 at 0

Title: SD Card mounts in Read-Only mode
Post by: Stubear on June 17, 2004, 02:22:28 am

I get the SD card mounted read-only occasionally if I remove it while the Z is powered on, or remove the card without software ejecting it.

To fix it I software eject the card, put the Z into suspend mode then power on again - this almost always remounts the SD read-write.

If not try rebooting, and if that don\'t work try fsck (or check for errors in windows using a card reader), if that still don\'t work then you\'ll need to try reformatting.

Not I only have a C760 so don\'t know about the 5x00 models

Stu