> 
> 
>   Hi 
> 
>   I brought in and connect USB "disk on key"  32Mb device to Mandrake 8.1 
> machine. (kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk)
> 
>   I mount the disk   in the following way
> 
>  > mount -t vfat  /dev/sda /mnt/usb 
> 
>  but found it write protected.
> 

I think that Linux believes too much to the information it receives from the
device. See http://www.stray.ch/articles/dok.html for a "bug" fix.

Dan.


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