On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 07:03 +0100, Martin S wrote: > I lent my USB stick to a guy for a job the other day. Apparently his > Win98 box wanted to install drivers for it to work, so he pulled it > before Wintendo (anything < 2000) could get to doing its stuff. > > Now I get > > SuicidalPuppy martoni # mount /mnt/usb/ > mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, > missing codepage or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so
The "read-only" is a bit misleading - I get this message when mount can't understand the filesystem, even though it may be ok. If you don't need any data from the drive, see if you can re-fdisk and re-format it. Unplug it first and plug in again, just in case you did something bad with hdparm. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> He who laughs, lasts. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
