Still a problem on 14.04 now. What's confusing is that the file system is properly mounted, and I can copy a file onto the drive using cp in a terminal, so it is a pure Nautilus issue.
Mount: /dev/sdc1 on /media/sergei/16GB type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2) Dmesg: [514464.082007] usb 3-8: USB disconnect, device number 30 [514465.866850] usb 3-8: new high-speed USB device number 31 using xhci_hcd [514465.883728] usb 3-8: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5530 [514465.883737] usb 3-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [514465.883742] usb 3-8: Product: Cruzer [514465.883746] usb 3-8: Manufacturer: SanDisk [514465.883749] usb 3-8: SerialNumber: 20060572701B1A23221D [514465.884351] usb-storage 3-8:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [514465.884525] scsi26 : usb-storage 3-8:1.0 [514466.882586] scsi 26:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [514466.883096] sd 26:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [514466.883864] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] 31266816 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB) [514466.884952] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [514466.884962] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 [514466.885247] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [514466.885252] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [514466.888280] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [514466.888289] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [514466.891130] sdc: sdc1 [514466.893934] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page found [514466.893936] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [514466.893938] sd 26:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375 Title: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1021375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs