Do you have iomegaware (iw) for linux installed? If so, is it putting the drive into prevent write mode? Just a thought.
No idea on the 1969 date issue. Mine is Jan 14 2001. Mark On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Reitsma, Rene - COB wrote: > > Dear Colleague, > > I'm wondering if one of you might have an insight into the following > Problem (if this is the wrong listserv to post, please forgive me and > point me to a better site): > > I have an iomega jaz/SCZI drive hooked up to my Pentium III Redhat 7.1 > machine. I use this drive for nightly backups. > > On boot I mount the drive on /mnt/jaz using the following > command listed in the /etc/rc.local file: > > mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/jaz > > All of this works fine. When log in I can access /mnt/jaz > just fine. The problem is, I can write to /mnt/jaz, but only > once! Once I write to the drive, subsequent writes cause the following > error: > > cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/jaz/some_file`: Read-only file > system > > Interestingly enough, these are the results for ls -l on / and /mnt > > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jul 25 06:34 mnt > > and > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 jaz > > So as root, I should be able to read and write these directories just > fine. > > Just as interesting, if I manually umount the drive and mount it > again, I can, once again, write the drive; but only once!!! > > Now, I can certainly modify my backup script to first umount and mount > the drive before copying the files, but that seems like the wrong > approach to solving this problem. > > Any ideas? > > RR > > p.s. Any idea why /mnt/jaz has a date of Dec 31, 1969 on it? > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
