On 20100325_193701, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-25 19:17, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I just purchased a new Western Digital 'My Passport'. I've done this > >before and thought I knew what to do, but this one has new, modern > >features that are causing be problem pain. As delivered, the drive > >has format type 07 (HPFS/NTFS). When I plug it in, it mounts as 2 > >partitions. One is called /dev/sda1 and the other is called > >/dev/sr0. I have succeeded in removing /dev/sda1 using fdisk and > >bulling thru warning messages about large number of cylinders. > > sr0 ?????? > > That's you CD/DVD drive!!!! >
No. My two CD/DVD drives are /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd . This thingy mounts as /media/My Passport Or some such. Its unplugged not so I can't check(note embedded space in name) And it isn't there when I pull the USB plug. > $ dir /dev/sr0 > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-03-23 15:40:09 /dev/sr0 > > $ dmesg | grep sr0 | head -n2 > [ 7.171872] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw > xa/form2 cdda tray > [ 7.172265] sr 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 > > > >But the /dev/sr0 is being difficult. Both fdisk and cfdisk tell me I > >have no permission to write. Not surprising given the device name. > > As it should!! > > >But I really want to remove it because it automounts with a goofy > >mountpoint name in /media and I know I will come to regret letting > >it survive. > > $ dmesg | grep sr0 > > >How? what software utility? Is this one of the x commands that are > >for experts only? > > > >PS yes I'm doing all my work as root. But still no permission to > >write. > > > > > -- > "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak > or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bac01ad.1000...@cox.net > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100326010750.gb12...@big.lan.gnu
