Stupidity again.
The read only button was set inadvertently to R/O. I set it of course
to R/W but a replug of the USB device was needed thus disconnect
physically the device, wait some time, reconnect it with the R/O
button set correctly and ... I can write again on the Flash Disc.
Question: is there an instruction to replug manually an USB
storage-device apart from waiting?
AB
Le samedi 16 août 2003, 16:53:58 ou environ Alain Barthélemy
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
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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?
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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
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