Re: Read-only USB scan

2008-12-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/21/08 05:01, Bhasker C V wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 12/20/08 18:18, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, hdparm -r1 /dev/sda works and I get this output when I read back the information with plain '-r' $ sudo hdparm -r /dev/sda /dev/sda: readonly = 1 (on)

Re: Re: Read-only USB scan

2008-12-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Ron Johnson wrote: (Please don't top-post.) On 12/20/08 18:18, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, hdparm -r1 /dev/sda works and I get this output when I read back the information with plain '-r' $ sudo hdparm -r /dev/sda /dev/sda: readonly = 1 (on) Does this make it really read-only ?

Re: Read-only USB scan

2008-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
(Please don't top-post.) On 12/20/08 18:18, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi, hdparm -r1 /dev/sda works and I get this output when I read back the information with plain '-r' $ sudo hdparm -r /dev/sda /dev/sda: readonly = 1 (on) Does this make it really read-only ? That's what happens

Re: Re: Read-only USB scan

2008-12-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, hdparm -r1 /dev/sda works and I get this output when I read back the information with plain '-r' $ sudo hdparm -r /dev/sda /dev/sda: readonly = 1 (on) Does this make it really read-only ? My harddisk is having a PV and then a VG ... LV which if i mount, still is able to wri

Re: Read-only USB scan

2008-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/20/08 12:32, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, I have a server where there is a USB SCSI disk with lots of important data. The only problem is accidentally people try to understand some other similar ide-scsi disk (sdb may be) as the first one (sda) and delete data. I was going to find out i

Read-only USB scan

2008-12-20 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I have a server where there is a USB SCSI disk with lots of important data. The only problem is accidentally people try to understand some other similar ide-scsi disk (sdb may be) as the first one (sda) and delete data. I was going to find out if there is any method so that I can mak