When a device is read-only (through a hardware switch preventing it to be written to), ntfs-3g falls back to a read-only mount (since ntfs-3g 2012.1.15AR.7). Actually, ntfs-3g falls back to read-only mount whenever it gets an EROFS from trying to open a device read-write.
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