You might appreciate that bit of the 80's sometime when a piece of malware or a hack bypasses your soft r/o protection. Software cannot move a physical switch. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Adam McCullough wrote: > Nothing like getting bit by the 1980s. :) > > > On 15 October 2013 17:34, Alan Dayley wrote: > >> There is a small slider switch on the side of the card. One position >> makes the card read only. It must have been moved from the other setting. >> Pull out the card and try again after sliding the switch to the read/write >> position. >> >> Or something else is wrong. ;-) >> >> Alan >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013, Dennis McClellan wrote: >> >>> Today I bought an 8 gig microSD. When I tried to put some music on it, I >>> got a READ ONLY message. >>> I opened up a terminal and typed 'sudo chmod 755 microsd' and got >>> another READ ONLY message. >>> Then I tried 'sudo chown' and recieved the same READ ONLY message. >>> any ideas?? >>> -- >>> Dennis McClellan >>> Mint 15 Cinnamon desktop >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.