Alan Stern wrote:
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, John O'Donnell wrote:


Thanks for the reply Alan!

Yeah I kinda figured it wouldnt be as easy as a problem with a USB adapter I bought last night (SanDisk SDDR-103) that doesnt seem to detect the Write Protect flag correctly. I had to change the source in 2.6.15.4 that I upgraded to this week to ignore that bit. I thought that used to be a kernel option?


There was for a while a kernel option to avoid checking the write-protect
bit altogether, because some devices didn't seem to like it.  That problem
hasn't been bothering people, so the option was removed.

Are you saying that the SDDR-103 reports the write-protect setting
wrongly, or that Linux interprets the reported value wrongly?

yuppers Alan! Just google it. I aint the only one. Someone suggested timing the insertion of the SanDisk card (and it only happens with SD cards it seems). Timing the insertion from 2 to 3 seconds after plugging in the reader to the USB port was reported to bypass it?!? Thats like waving chicken bones and jumping around in prayer to me... So I just disabled it in the code. Workin great!

If there is any info there I can help ya out with, I'd be glad to help.

I got the card reader since the GamePark GP2X that I got this week doesnt work with USB properly (but iut is GamePark's problem and they know it) so I need the SanDisk device to load all my games/videos/music/etc.... Love my new Linux toy ;-)

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