A Data USB Key mounts Read Only under Suse
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Jul 26 04:17:11 UTC 2010
| From: phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org
| Then I purchased an 'A Data C905' key at Canada Computers and discovered
| that it would mount only as a 'read only file system'. After over an hour
| of fruitless fiddling around with fstab and device permissions, I decided
| (which I should have done much earlier) to try another key, (by LG). That
| one mounted just fine: I could read from and write to it.
What filesystem does it have?
Did you try an fsck?
If I remember correctly, some Linux distros have only read-only
support for NTFS, at least out of the box.
Did dmesg show anything interesting? /var/log/messages?
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