MicroSD card mounts read-only

[darkweasel]

jackie wallen schrieb:
> darkweasel wrote:
>   
>> 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>:
>>>  
>>>       
> you could try:
>
> try something like this:
>
> dev/sdc2       /media/card    auto    user,noauto,exec,rw,umask=0000 0 0
>
> if that doesn't work do you know what format the card is in? i know it's 
> crazy but if it was formatted on a MAC you'll need to reformat it 
> because Linux has a heck of a time mounting MAC formatted media rw.
>
>
>   
Doesn't work. It was formatted with a Nokia 5300 mobile phone, which 
when formatting also removed all partitions for some reason (but it 
didn't work either when it had one, i.e. as I got it from the factory). 
But I cannot format or partition it from Ubuntu - GParted reports it's 
read-only.