[maemo-users] Write access for MMC

[From: Shivkumar Chandrasekaran]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 21:02 +0200, Damien Challet wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20.48:40 James Knott wrote:
> > Shivkumar Chandrasekaran wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a 770 with OS2007 Hacker's edition with a 1GB removable card.
> > > Everything worked fine until yesterday when I suddenly lost write-access
> > > to the card. So I can no longer do backups or write or remove files from
> > > the File Manager. I tried connecting it to my Linux machine using the
> > > USB cable, but the Linux machine also insists that the file system on
> > > the USB drive is read-only (so I could not delete files for example from
> > > linux terminal, even with super-user permission).
> > >
> > > Can anyone give me some advice so that I can re-acquire write access?
> 
> the file system card can be corrupted and needs an fsck.

Any idea how I can do that? When I chose "Memory card -> mmc2 ->
Format ..." from File Manager it tells me that the memory card is in
use. I tried booting up without the memory card and then inserted it
later to no effect.

Thanks,

--shiv--