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5x00 Hardware / Sd Card Mounted Read-only

« on: July 21, 2005, 06:24:14 am »

. . . there is a little switch on the sd card itself that will switch it to read only.

maybe obvious but easier to overlook. Perhaps yours has one too.
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Thanks for the thought, but it isn't that.

I've since tried to reformat the disk back to FAT via the card reader on my PC, but that didn't fix it.

I've also bitten the bullet and reflashed to OZ 3.5.3 with Opie - I hoped it might have different (better!) drivers. The problem's still there, but now manifests as loads of spurious files on the SD disk. I think I'll just have to give this card up as a bad job, and try another manufacturer.

By the way, the card works like a dream on the PC!

tbok

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5x00 Hardware / Sd Card Mounted Read-only

« on: July 04, 2005, 07:27:41 am »

Thank you everyone.  It's working now.
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I've got the same problem as you - could you say what fixed it?

I'm not a Zaurus geek yet - I've only just got my 5500 (dead cheap - I'm short of cash!), but I'm very familiar with *nix on bigger kit.

The card I have is a Kingston 512Mb SD which was brand new and pre-formatted as FAT. It mounted OK, but I couldn't write to it. I fdisked it and reformatted it as extfs and I wrote to it successfully once using terminal access (created a directory), but now any time I try I get a message that there's no file space available, even though df says there is. By the way, I'm still running ROM 2.35 - I've not dared to try flashing it yet!!

I'm stumped!!

Thanks in advance,

tbok