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Author: Dazed_75
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Read Only
You might appreciate that bit of the 80's sometime when a piece of malware
or a hack bypasses your soft r/o protection. Software cannot move a
physical switch.


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Adam McCullough <> wrote:

> Nothing like getting bit by the 1980s. :)
>
>
> On 15 October 2013 17:34, Alan Dayley <> wrote:
>
>> There is a small slider switch on the side of the card. One position
>> makes the card read only. It must have been moved from the other setting.
>> Pull out the card and try again after sliding the switch to the read/write
>> position.
>>
>> Or something else is wrong. ;-)
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Dennis McClellan wrote:
>>
>>> Today I bought an 8 gig microSD. When I tried to put some music on it, I
>>> got a READ ONLY message.
>>> I opened up a terminal and typed 'sudo chmod 755 microsd' and got
>>> another READ ONLY message.
>>> Then I tried 'sudo chown' and recieved the same READ ONLY message.
>>> any ideas??
>>> --
>>> Dennis McClellan
>>> Mint 15 Cinnamon desktop
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