On 14-11-2014 12:16, flapflap wrote: > if you refer to the "Lock" switch of SD memory cards, then please note > that this "Lock" switch is only evaluated in OS software and no > physical/electrical protection of the flash IC. [...] > USB sticks with real physical (i.e. electrically routed to the > write-protect pin of the flash IC) write protection are rare, but they > exist (as you said).
I didn't know that, and I'm not sure if the sticks I have do the former or the later. I should try to remount them rw on a Linux box and then try to write something to them to test it. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users