You are correct! I had a 256 meg card that the lock fell out of, but I see I added a small piece of plastic and superglued it.
On Jul 11, 2011, at 21:00 , P. J. Alling wrote: > I speak from experience if the tab is gone the card is locked. If you;d like > I have a two Gig SanDisk Extreme card I'll let you have for half the cost of > a new one, only missing the write enable/protect tab. > > On 7/11/2011 11:54 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >> I think the opposite is true. If the locking tab is gone, you cannot lock >> the card. Anybody? >> >> On Jul 11, 2011, at 17:03 , P. J. Alling wrote: >> >>> Sure you don't have to worry about it, the camera thinks the card is locked >>> and won't write to it, nor will any properly designed card reader. I wish >>> I could get large capacity MMC cards which are just SD cards without a lock >>> tab. But there is no such thing as a large capacity MMC card... >>> >>> On 7/11/2011 7:27 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >>>> The best thing about the lock tab coming off the SD card is that you never >>>> have to worry about it again! >>>> >>>> Does anyone actually use the lock? I never have, ever. I guess I could >>>> drop a speck of superglue into it when I buy one. >>>> >>>> On Jul 10, 2011, at 14:51 , Jens wrote: >>>> >>>>> I never had this problem. >>>>> But I broke a lot of SD cards. They are quite prone to braking or just >>>>> loosing the lock thing. I frequently have to glue the damned things >>>>> together agian. Almost all my cards have af glued lock these days. I wish >>>>> Pentax had stayed with the CF cards, which are much more durable. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ Nature is considerably more creative and inventive than humankind. Without Nature there isn't any humankind. Without humankind, Nature is fine.” -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
