On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 17:03 +0200, Eero Tamminen wrote: <snip> > > If you have the mailboxes on one of the memory cards check to see > > if the card is read only. I had that issue and discovered a RS-MMC > > had spontaneously protected itself. > > This usually means that the card file system has corrupted. > > Memory cards use the common MicroSoft FAT file system. > It's easy to corrupt by: > - unplugging the USB cable without using "safely remove" > - taking the card out while it's being written to > - device freeze/reboot (no reproducible cases known currently) > when some data is only partly written to the card > > Linux kernel remounts disk (in this case memory card) as read-only > when it notices that it's corrupted. This is done to protect it > from further corruption. > > You can resolve this by repairing the file system. Device > file manager has a utility for this, but there might not be > enough memory to run that if your card is large and full, > so I'd recommend doing it from the PC. > > > I reformated the card, > > Reformatting works also, but loses all of the data on the card. > > > > verified that was the problem and replaced the card. > > There's a good probability that the card itself was still fine. > > > - Eero Dear Eero, Thanks very much, I probably created the problem myself then. Thanks for pointing out it was my fault ;) Very interesting; in all seriousness; though. Thank you, I did not know all that. I will bear that in mind for the future. The cards I threw out were rather old RS-MMC cards I bought when I bought my original 770's, and not very big so no loss there. I did copy all the information on the cards to another card before reformating so no loss there either. Best Regards, -- Peter Bart <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Peter The Plumber _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
