frustrations w/ usb drive being mounted read only

[Jonathan Jesse]

Hello,

I am currently running Edgy and it appears that maybe since a recent
update my USB drive is being mounted read only or is changing in the midst
of using it to read only.
Let me explain, if you recall earlier I started a thread about my 120 Gig
USB drive and the lsit helped me format it in vfat.
SO I am trying to run some VMs off it and it seems in 4/5 reboots my USB
drive is mounted read only if I have plugged in upon restart.  Also it is
"randomly" becoming read only in the midst of operations.
Is the file system that I picked causing the problems?  Should I have
picked something better like ext3 or something?

Any help on why a drive would suddenly become read only?


-- 
Jonathan Jesse