read only SD card

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 May 2014 13:49, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 11 May 2014 12:40, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Logged in as Guest and had no problem adding or deleting files.
> >>
> >> What do you see for permissions when logged in as guest?
> >
> > Me, everything, guest, nothing and can not be modified.  Same as when
> logged
> > in as gary14.
>
> I have just realised I am being stupid.  You said it is formatted as
> FAT and so there are no permissions on the card.
>
> If you plug in the card when logged in as guest and check dmesg are
> you still seeing it say that the card is set to RO?  Have a look at
> that then check whether you can write to it.  Then take it out, log in
> normally, and plug it back in and check dmesg again.
>
> Another test is to check you can write to it when logged in as guest,
> then login normally without unplugging and see if you can still write
> to it.
>
> Colin
>


It says write protect is off. I can write to it no problem as guest.
 Logged in as gary14, try to write to is says it is read only, although I
was able to delete a file, which I had not been able to do lately.

garyk
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