Hey,
I’m running OpenSuse 11.
I just got a 8GB MicroSD card, I also have a little MicroSD USB card reader.
I can put the usb reader in my computer, and it will pop-up in Suse. But I can’t add anything. It just gives an error, that its a read-only file system. I try and right-click the media and change it to read and write, but it won’t let me.
Anyway, I’d like to be able to format the card, is there any way, or any program I can get?
Thanks.
1st thing to do would be to check the card isn’t locked. I had that problem a few weeks ago & solved it that way. As for formatting, i just used the YaST partitioner/formatter
Andy
I always use my SD cards in a camera, and hence I use the camera’s firmware program for formatting.
That would be my first thought too.
deltaflyer44 wrote:
> 1st thing to do would be to check the card isn’t locked.
Slushie,
that means: maybe there is a TINY little slide switch on the left
side (with the notch on upper right…contacts on back)…
slide the switch up to unlock…
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Slushie wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I’m running OpenSuse 11.
>
> I just got a 8GB MicroSD card, I also have a little MicroSD USB card
> reader.
>
> I can put the usb reader in my computer, and it will pop-up in Suse.
> But I can’t add anything. It just gives an error, that its a read-only
> file system. I try and right-click the media and change it to read and
> write, but it won’t let me.
Check if the auto-mounter mounts the card read-only.
> Anyway, I’d like to be able to format the card, is there any way, or
> any program I can get?
If the card isn’t write protected or mounted r/o, then
‘mkfs.msdos -F 32 -n “volume-label” /dev/sd?’ can be used to put a vfat
filesystem on the card.