Why USB "disk on key" is write protected

2002-02-04 Thread levo 


  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.

This disk do contain some files I put on it on WIn2k machine and I can access 
these files.

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Re: Why USB "disk on key" is write protected

2002-02-05 Thread Dan Kenigsberg 

> 
> 
>   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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