On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: > I think the opposite is true. If the locking tab is gone, you cannot lock the > card. Anybody?
Nope. If the locking tab is gone, the card remains locked. I had to glue a piece of cardboard onto a card to retrieve files. Paul > > 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 > > “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” > — Kevan Olesen > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
