Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread Alan Cox
> of disk to respond to host query to identify itself > or to host > query to report it's DMA status?? > Please have a look at the error messages I had posted at > http://www.sendspace.com/file/761te2 The trace clearly shows its bust or the cables are or similar. It's not a "write protect" its si

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting JD : On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:44 -0700 JD wrote: > Is there a system util to use to issue > a command to a hard drive to remove > write protect? > I had thought hdparm might do it, but > the man page makes no mention of such > featur

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/21/2012 09:09 AM, JD wrote: Since it is an external drive that is detachable, I decided to mount it manually. I did indeed run fsck and it declared the fs clean. When I try to mount it with mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/sdd1 /sdd1 I've never had rw work correctly. Try putting it in fstab, usi

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread JD
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:44 -0700 > JD wrote: > > > Is there a system util to use to issue > > a command to a hard drive to remove > > write protect? > > I had thought hdparm might do it, but > > the man page makes no mention of such > > featu

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread JD
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/20/2012 11:07 PM, JD wrote: > >> Since I try to mount it as root, and /dev/sdd1 has mode 600, permission >> is not >> the issue. So, it has to be a disk internal hardware state. >> > > What is your mount command. If there's an entry in fs

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:29:44 -0700 JD wrote: > Is there a system util to use to issue > a command to a hard drive to remove > write protect? > I had thought hdparm might do it, but > the man page makes no mention of such > feature in hdparm. SATA or some kind of USB thing ? If its SATA I'm not

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-21 Thread Jens Neu
On 21.11.2012 09:07, JD wrote: Since I try to mount it as root, and /dev/sdd1 has mode 600, permission is not the issue. So, it has to be a disk internal hardware state. If you mount it correctly and the FS is clean, maybe that would be the time to check your backup and fire up smartctl ;-)

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/21/2012 03:07 PM, JD wrote: > > On 11/20/2012 11:54 PM, Jens Neu wrote: >> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:29:44 +0100, users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org >> wrote: >>> Is there a system util to use to issue >>> a command to a hard drive to remove >>> write protect? >> What kind of write protect d

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/20/2012 11:07 PM, JD wrote: Since I try to mount it as root, and /dev/sdd1 has mode 600, permission is not the issue. So, it has to be a disk internal hardware state. What is your mount command. If there's an entry in fstab, give that as well, please. -- users mailing list users@lists.

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-20 Thread JD
On 11/20/2012 11:54 PM, Jens Neu wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:29:44 +0100, users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Is there a system util to use to issue a command to a hard drive to remove write protect? What kind of write protect do you mean? I have never heard from a software write pr

Re: Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-20 Thread Jens Neu
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:29:44 +0100, users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: > Is there a system util to use to issue > a command to a hard drive to remove > write protect? What kind of write protect do you mean? I have never heard from a software write protect in common hard disks. I've see

Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

2012-11-20 Thread JD
Is there a system util to use to issue a command to a hard drive to remove write protect? I had thought hdparm might do it, but the man page makes no mention of such feature in hdparm. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin