Hello, For 2 months I have had a USB 128Mb Flash Disk (from W:MG). It worked perfectly with SuSE-8.1 and SuSE-7.3 It has a button to block it in read/only mode but I let it always in R/W mode. Yesterday, suddenly it declared that /dev/sda1 block device could only be used in R/O mode. I checked the button but was in R/W position. I was on the laptop with SuSE-8.1 I tried with the laptop with SuSE-7.3 and I could mount it in R/W mode. Thus I thought it was a configuration problem. But this morning, same problem with both laptops, impossible to mount in R/W mode. Thus maybe hardware problem (the Flash Disk?). permissions of /dev/sda1 are ls -l /dev/sda1 : brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 sep 24 2001 /dev/sda1 ==== The sequence of events was thus: Yesterday: 1) SuSE-8.1 Laptop: read-only mode 2) SuSE-7.3 Laptop: R/W mode OK 3) Both Laptop halted This morning 4) Both Laptop rebooted 5) SuSE-8.1 Laptop: read-only mode 6) SuSE-7.3 Laptop: read-only mode What could have happened between stage 2 and 6 apart from a reboot of SuSE-7.3 Laptop? ==================== Manually I used: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mount_dir or mount -t vfat /dev:sda1 -o rw /mount_dir -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@bartydeux.be http://www.bartydeux.be Linux User #315631