Thread: sd card access

Is it locked? Flip the little switch on the side.

there is no lock on this one.

I'm assuming you're putting the micro-sd into an SD card sized adapter, then putting it into a reader.

There is a lock on the SD card adapter, not the Micro SD itself.

Nope.
No lock on the adapter either.

when viewed in Nautilus, are there little locks on all the file icons?

Originally Posted by Ynot

when viewed in Nautilus, are there little locks on all the file icons?

Sometimes.
Normally not until I go in and try to add/delete something and then go back out of it.
The icon on my desktop however doesn't have that icon, ever.

Damn it to hell.
Now when I plug the SD card in nothing happens.
So I go to Places>Computer>USB Drive and when i click on the USB Drive to mount it i get the error "Unable to mount location No media in drive"

Originally Posted by Fableflame

Damn it to hell.
Now when I plug the SD card in nothing happens.
So I go to Places>Computer>USB Drive and when i click on the USB Drive to mount it i get the error "Unable to mount location No media in drive"

Did you pull it out when it was reading or writing a file? If so, you might have broken the SD card.

Oh, how old is the card? They have limited read/write cycles you know, and will eventually die. If you've had it for awhile, you probably wore it out, and thus, you can no longer read/write to it.

No I didn't mess with it during a read or write, and the card isn't old.

this sounds like the flash drive is on it's way out

If Linux defaults a filesystem to read-only, it's normally because there's something wrong, and it's playing it safe

now, it's refusing to mount

You can try scanning the flash drive for errors
Make sure the flash drive isn't mounted (which shouldn't be a problem for you now ;p)
fire up gparted, select the flash device, and check the filesystem for errors

(make a mental note of the flash drive's device name - Eg. /dev/sdb1 - as you might need it)

After checking the filesystem, you can try manually mounting the device and seeing if any error messages crop up

Make sure you replace sdb1 with the correct device name

Code:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1