Problem with USB

[Pat Brown]

Mark Haney wrote:
> 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?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Just for fun, have you tried to unmount it and remount it (manually) 
> with the rw flag set?  Do you have anything in /etc/fstab that is 
> associated to the mount point your flash drive is using?  What does 
> /etc/mtab say when it's mounted?
>
>
>   
I've mounted and remounted it a few times. The permissions are drwx. I 
have a second USB which works fine, no read-only issues. I can also use 
this USB in my ASUS EEE PC with no issues. Thanks to all for your 
suggestions.

Pat Brown
pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com
http://www.pabrown.ca/

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