How to make Firewire drive writable again?

[Paul DeShaw]

>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:10:15 -0400
> "Cory K." wrote
> Paul DeShaw wrote:
> > So, how do I acess the work I have on this drive?
>
> Try firing up "Ubuntu Studio Controls" in System->Admin and check the
> box to enable 1394. Might need a logout/reboot. (I don't have a drive
> but that might help)
>
> -Cory K.


Cory,

That worked.  I just was playing back a track.  I'm amazed how simple that
was, and grateful for the help.


> Luke Yelavich wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:06:00AM EST, Paul DeShaw wrote:
> > Now, I find that no Linux system can read and write to this drive
> anymore.
> > For example, if I open Nautilis as root, and try to drag and drop a
> > Rosegarden session onto this drive, I get an error message that says,
> >
> > Error while copying to "PPA1.2":
> >
> > The destination is read-only
> >
> > Looking at the permissions in a terminal, it says
> >
> > pad at Studio909:~$ ls -l /media
> > total 12<snip>
> > drwxrwxrwx  1 root root   19 2008-06-22 22:46 PPA1.2
>
> Just a note, that is owned by root, yet is accessible to everyone. You
> might want to tighten that up to only the user owning and accessing it.


That was the only way I knew to make it accessable from different machines
and OS's.

>
>
> Have you considered repairing/checking disk permissions etc in OS X? Since
> HFS+ is native to OS X, it should know how to deal with such a filesystem
> the best.
>
> > So, how do I acess the work I have on this drive?
>
> Make sure the filesystem is in tact, and perhaps try copying he data off
> the drive in OS X onto another drive. If that works, try in Linux. If not,
> I'd back up, whipe the drive, and start a fresh with a compatible filesystem
> for all OSs you use.
>
> Luke


Thankfully this wasn't necessary.  HFS+ was the best comprimise:  FAT32
would limit file size, EXT3 wouldn't allow access from Mac OSX.  I find I'm
using Mac less now that I have Ubuntu on the MacBook; maybe I will
eventually back everything up, and reformat the drive to a Linux filesystem.

Thanks, guys,

Paul
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