FireWire drive access gone

[Gustin Johnson]

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Paul DeShaw wrote:
> 
>     "Paul DeShaw"wrote:
>     Greetings,
> 
>     Although I have a USB interface, sometimes I like to do a little
>     editing or
>     scratchpad recording directly into the laptop, without bulky
>     equipment and
>     associated cords and power supplies.  I have experimented with it,
>     and so
>     far, I can record in Ardour, but I can't play anything back.
> 
> 
> I tried opening the session I recorded last night, and suddenly the
> whole drive is inaccessable.  This is with the same machine and OS I
> recorded the session with.
> 
> Raw 1394 is enabled in Ubuntu Studio controls.
> 
> The drive is called PPA1.2 . I recorded the session whole_scratchpad
> into the folder Ardour sessions. Terminal output [edited]:
> 
> pad at MacBuntu:~$ ls -l /media
> drwxrwxrwx 1 root root   20 2008-08-10 12:36 PPA1.2
> 
> pad at MacBuntu:~$ ls -l /media/PPA1.2
> drwxrwxrwx 1  99  99        13 2008-08-19 23:19 Ardour sessions
> 
> pad at MacBuntu:~$ ls -l /media/PPA1.2/Ardour\ sessions
> drwxr-xrwx 1  99  99 12 2008-08-24 01:03 whole_scratchpad
> 
> Looks like anyone should be able to open it, right?  I don't know what
> to change.  I started the session in Mac OS, then I rebooted into Ubuntu
> Studio.  I had to change the permissions to get in, which I did with
> sudo nautilus.  Then I was able to record more audio.  I think I
> remember closing and opening that session several times without a
> problem.  The next day, I can't open anything, but the file permissions
> look fine in the terminal. Other sesssions I had access to are now
> closed, as well.  If I open sudo nautilis again, I find root is the
> owner and group.  It says root can create and delete files under "folder
> access", but under file access it just says "---"  If I try to give root
> read and write access under "folder access",  read and write is not
> listed.  Under "file access", I can change it, but if I close and reopen
> the window, it is back to "---"
> 
> How do I fix this?
> 

sudo find /path/to/drive/mount/point -type d -exec chmod 0666 \{\} \;

This is assuming that there are no other problems with the drive.  I
would unmount and check the disk for inconsistancies.

You also did not mention  what file system this drive is using.  That
might help us to diagnose the problem as well.
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