Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 09:03, Jonas Helgi Palsson wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 16:14, Mike wrote:
> > But did you try writing to it. I had the same experience as you.
> > Plug it in and it is automagically recognized. Remove it, and it's
> > gone. Then I tried to write a file to it. Nope, can't do it. Tried
> > to change permissions. Not allowed. Heck, not even root would do
> > it.
>
> I've seen that behavior. USB-stick that was not writeable in Linux,
> but it was in Windows, the reason for that... It had been formated
> with NTFS... Just run and do a quick mkreiserfs on it and complain
> about it not being read- or writeable in Windows (then it is Linux
> that damaged it, normal logic there)

Nope.. It WAS writeable in linux and winders. Guess again. It's 
formatted with fat NOT ntfs. Has been since I bought it.  Worked fine 
in 9.0, and for that matter still does. Can't even change permissions 
as root. I could use the "fix" from portal, but that changes the 
complete way it's supposed to work. So, got another solution, or what?

>
> > Nice to look at, but totally useless.
>
> You could read from it?

Yep, but can't transfer files with it, so what's your point? The point 
is that I'd like to transfer files between computers that aren't 
physically connected. Can't do it with the current setup. 

So I'd like to hear if you have another idea. So far your solution is 
the same as it currently works, and that's not acceptable.

Mike
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