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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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SD Card read only [Solved]

Hi,

Do not think its an Arch related problem but I have an SD Card which will only mount read-only

mount: block device /dev/sdh2 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdh2,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

It states card is write-protected it not write locked, of course not being able to write to the card I cannot reformat it.

Just wondered if card was faulty? or can I repair the filesystem on it? [ext3]

Thanks

MrG

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-02-03 09:08:31)

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luca

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From: Rome

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 280

Re: SD Card read only [Solved]

Hi Mr Green,
you can try with ddrescue (it's in extra repository):
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

Mr Green

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Re: SD Card read only [Solved]

Wow thanks for that seems to be able to read from device not sure if it will repair it..../me reads manual

managed to read data off device and use a loop to mount to a directory

only thing is I still have no access to device I really hope its not faulty ;-(

Last edited by Mr Green (2008-01-06 14:52:47)

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Mr Green

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Re: SD Card read only [Solved]

Ok I stuck card into a new digital camera and it said card was unreadable asked if I wanted to format it and it now works fine :-)

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