SD Memory Mounted as Write Protected File System

[njdube]

I put ubunutu 8.10 64 bit on my sisters Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. All the hardware works fine. One little problem. No matter what SD card I put in the slot, ubuntu keeps mounting the memory as read only. And yes, I checked the switch on the card. The memory can write just fine when put in a camera (or in case of a microSD card used in her cell phone). I tried multiple cards and the same thing happens. I tried sudo thinking it was a user permissions problem and nothing. I'm not a developer or a Linux expert but I'm getting the feeling it's the core of the system that's responsible for mounting that's causing the problem. Just my gut feeling. I'll try a live cd of other distros later to see if that works. It'll tell me if it's distro related or kernel related. But not now, I'm tired.

[nicklikesfire]

I'm having the same problem, any help would be really appreciated.

[washegon]

Hey I have the same problem. Got a G1 phone and it mounts the microsd card with read-only, little ipod icon with red circle slash thru it. What's weird is I mounted it running Fedora 10 and it came up fine read/write,little ipod icon no red circle slash. Something about ubuntu only mounts it as read only with the G1. I use Banshee to manage my music collection and when it transfers sometimes it works and somtimes it errors out. Any Help?

[timcredible]

if the sd card has a filesystem error, ubuntu will mount it as read only. run dosfsck -a on it to fix it. so, an example would be:
dosfsck -a /dev/sdb replace "sdb" with whatever your sd card mounts as.