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2006/3/24, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>: |
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> On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:03 +0100, Martin S wrote: |
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> > I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his |
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> > Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it |
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> > before Wintendo (anything < 2000) could get to doing its stuff. |
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> > |
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> > Now I get |
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> > |
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> > SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/ |
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> > mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only |
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> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, |
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> > missing codepage or other error |
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> > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try |
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> > dmesg | tail or so |
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> The "read-only" is a bit misleading - I get this message when mount |
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> can't understand the filesystem, even though it may be ok. |
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> If you don't need any data from the drive, see if you can re-fdisk and |
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> re-format it. Unplug it first and plug in again, just in case you did |
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> something bad with hdparm. |
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SuicidalPuppy martoni # fdisk /dev/sda |
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You will not be able to write the partition table. |
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Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF |
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disklabel |
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Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, |
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until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous |
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content won't be recoverable. |
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Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by |
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w(rite) |
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Command (m for help): n |
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Command action |
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e extended |
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p primary partition (1-4) |
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p |
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Partition number (1-4): 1 |
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First cylinder (1-1015, default 1): |
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Using default value 1 |
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Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1015, default 1015): |
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Using default value 1015 |
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Command (m for help): p |
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Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes |
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9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 1 1015 255752 83 Linux |
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Command (m for help): w |
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Unable to write /dev/sda |
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Regards, |
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Martin S |
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