Nokia N800 And Memory Cards

While trying to convince a corrupt memory card to work I discovered something interesting about the N800.

It’s got a small magnet on the back of the battery cover which pokes into the square hole next to the internal memory card. Opening the cover causes a kernel log message and the memory card to be unmounted.

There’s also a small switch in the flap that shuts off the other memory card slot when you open it. This one is quite obvious as the N800 only recognises new cards when you close the flap.

I did wonder how they made it so we could just remove memory cards without having to unmount them…

Tags: Hardware, Linux, Memory, N800