Interesting. Is it possible then that some sectors could be locked but
still appear as free space which the camera then interprets as a locked
drive becuase it can't write to what it thinks is unallocated space?
Any, if that's the case it's still a bug.
Chuck Norcutt
Mark Dapoz wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Garth wrote:
>
>>It's not the microdrive per se, but the difference in the way the media
>>can (or can not) be set to read-only *globally*. As far as I'm aware,
>>that's perfectly possible for a hard drive. Unlike a CF card.
>
>
> Flash chips usually allow for at least some of the sectors to be marked as
> locked (read-only). How many sectors and how this is accomplished is chip
> dependent and requires following the programming interface for the chip.
> I have no idea if CF cards take advantage of this but it would be possible
> for the CF microcontroller to lock the flash chips so that they can't be
> written to.
> -mark
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