Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
PierPaolo wrote: > maybe not utf-8 but nls=utf8, > then try -o rw,force,nls=uft8, > then hope that initial sectors of the drive (when it is flash too?) aren't > damaged... if you could, try mounting the drive from winzoz, maybe it was > unmounted from there without "safe removing" or such like tha

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread PierPaolo
maybe not utf-8 but nls=utf8, then try -o rw,force,nls=uft8, then hope that initial sectors of the drive (when it is flash too?) aren't damaged... if you could, try mounting the drive from winzoz, maybe it was unmounted from there without "safe removing" or such like that, once, long time ago, this

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/9/16 PierPaolo : >> try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 >> > > umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount -o rw,nls=utf-8 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ > mount: block device /dev/sdc1 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, >

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/9/16 PierPaolo : > try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 > umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount -o rw,nls=utf-8 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdc1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1, missing codepage or helper program, or

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-16 Thread PierPaolo
try mounting with -o rw,nls=utf-8 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:36, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on > > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 80 00 > > This is the issue, and it seems you have a write protection

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on > [12405.685764] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 80 00 This is the issue, and it seems you have a write protection enabled on the stick. read the documentation about this model (or tell us what model it is) check

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > It is /dev/sdb1. I could not find any write protection button on this > usb flashdrive. How can I make this one writeable again? > If it's NTFS use fuse.ntfs to mount. fstab entry example: /dev/hda1 /mnt/c fuse.ntfs locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 IF the above is not the c

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/9/16 Till Wimmer : > Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> >> umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ >> mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only >> umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda1              11G  7.7G  2.2G  

Re: cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Till Wimmer
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 11G 7.7G 2.2G 78% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.

cannot write to usb drive

2009-09-15 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
umarz...@ctrl:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only umarz...@ctrl:~$ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 11G 7.7G 2.2G 78% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /lib/init/rw udev

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are *supposed* to do this for you. That is what I would like. I use KDE. > If he uses GNOME, does OP have gnome-mount and gnome-volume-manager > installed? What is the KDE equivilent? Note that when I insert a CD, the "what to

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 15:35, Bob McGowan wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspa

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 21:33:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > > lshal). > > I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. The amount of information is a bit

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. > You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount > under /me

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Dotan Cohen schreef: > On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. >>> [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > >> the plugdev group. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > > f

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to > the plugdev group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin powerdev admin > Here are my groups

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread John Schmidt
On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage > from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. > Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora > desktop can read and write to it as a

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try "mount /media/usb" as a user. > That's all there was to it??! Thanks, that worked! I can get by now, but for the wife's sake, can this be handled by HAL's automount? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Howie
Try "mount /media/usb" as a user. On Jan 8, 2008 7:33 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage > from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. > Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, an

Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora desktop can read and write to it as a regular user. However, my Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 laptop can