FAT32 RW problems

[Sarangan Thuraisingham / துரைசிங்கம் சாரங்கன்]

Camuzat Sebastien wrote:
> Hi steve, Hi everyone,
> Actually, Ive tried every entry possible in my fstab,
> including the one you told me...
> 
> And even as owner of the hard drive (with RW
> capability showon in 'properties'), I cannot write
> because ubuntu always says the file is mounted on a
> read-only system file disk.
> 
> Maybe Ive a problem with the bios config...?
> Ive got one disk with two OS (msouine & ubuntu),
> Master HD, and another with data (FAT32), slave HD
> 
> sc

Just to double check:
   1. This drive is internal right?(Obviously cos of the hdX naming)
   2. Until yesterday you were able to write to it. So what did you do 
yesterday? Did you install any patches of sort or did you change the 
fstab file or something?
   3. Can you write to partition as root?

May be you should try simpler mount options. Try:
  mount -t vfat -o defaults,user,suid,umask=000 /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1

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