MicroSD card mounts read-only

[darkweasel]

jackie wallen schrieb:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I recently (for Christmas) got a new 2GB MicroSD card and an adapter for
>>> it to use it with my SD card slot - in order to be able to transfer
>>> music from my computer to my Nokia 5300.
>>>
>>> However, no matter if I insert the new MicroSD card or the old 256MB one
>>> that came with my mobile phone, Ubuntu says it's read-only and doesn't
>>> let me transfer music to it. I already asked at the German support forum
>>> ubuntuusers.de but didn't receive an answer there.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>       
>
> have you tried setting the UMASK in your fstab entry? try an entry like 
> this:
>
> /dev/sdc2       /media/card    auto    user,noauto,exec,umask=0000  0  0
>
> naturally /dev/sdc2 and /media/card will be specific to your setup.
>
>
>   
Didn't work, still mounts read-only.
Dotan Cohen schrieb:
> 2008/12/26 darkweasel <darkweasel at euirc.eu>:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I recently (for Christmas) got a new 2GB MicroSD card and an adapter for
>> it to use it with my SD card slot - in order to be able to transfer
>> music from my computer to my Nokia 5300.
>>
>> However, no matter if I insert the new MicroSD card or the old 256MB one
>> that came with my mobile phone, Ubuntu says it's read-only and doesn't
>> let me transfer music to it. I already asked at the German support forum
>> ubuntuusers.de but didn't receive an answer there.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>     
>
> This often happens in FAT and NTFS media that was not properly
> unmounted when removed from the previous device. For a Windows
> computer, that means clicking Unmount (or whatever it is) before
> removing the media from the computer. For many mobile phones, you must
> power down the phone before removing the card.
>
> I the flash media is not properly unmounted before being removed, the
> filesystem will panic when mounted. Linux plays it safe and mounts
> read-only in this case. It's bitten me more than once! And that is a
> good thing, as Windows computers will mount the drive r/w and I have
> twice seen data corruption as a result.
>
>   
Tried powering off the phone before removing the card, still doesn't work.

I'm going to try using an external card reader as I had reports of 
writing to MicroSD cards working with external readers, but not with 
internal ones. Still I'd be thankful for any other suggestions that have 
me not needing to spend 3 to 10 euros for this ;)