[ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

[Andrew Jenkins]

I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set
it up I had it connected as an external USB drive.
All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a
couple of Gb of files to it.

After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my
machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file
system.  I remember a pen-drive of mine doing the
same thing and I ended up having to redo the mkfs to
cure it.  This isn't a problem with a 512Mb pen
drive but with a 500Gb drive with over 100Gb of files
already on there it's not really an option.

Any other answers?  I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 (Gnome).

Andy Jenkins.