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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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> Now I get |
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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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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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He who laughs, lasts. |
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