Problem with USB
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Jul 30 21:09:52 UTC 2008
Pat Brown wrote:
> I looked this issue up in the archives, but while I found that others
> seem to have this problem the one thread I found didn't give a solution.
> When I insert my USB memory stick into my laptop it comes up as
> read-only. I am no longer able to save files to it. I can't find
> anything physical on the device which might have been set to read-only.
> So does anyone have any ideas?
>
>
It appears the file system on your USB stick is read only. Do you
have another USB stick you could try? If both are read only then it
could be the laptop has those things in /dev set to read only. Not likely.
Karl
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