read only SD card

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Brandon Vincent <Brandon.Vincent at asu.edu>wrote:

> I would unmount the SD card under your problematic user account and
> run "hdparm -r0 /dev/sda" as root. That will force the kernel to
> recognize the RO switch on the SD card as being off. Then try to mount
> the card manually. I would be curious to see if you encounter any
> errors.
>
> Brandon Vincent



gave it a try and get same "read only" message

gary14 at gary14:~$ sudo hdparm -r0 /dev/sda
[sudo] password for gary14:

/dev/sda:
 setting readonly to 0 (off)
 readonly      =  0 (off)


thanks


garyk
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