USB cannot be read

[Antonio M]

2008/5/11 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>:
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>
>  --- Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > 2008/5/11 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>  > > After some time I plugged my USB MP3 player and I
>  > find that is seen as
>  > >  read-only!!!!
>  > >  What is the component to blame???
>  > >
>  > >  It was working fine....Fedora 9 fully updated!!!
>  > >
>  > >  Tnx
>  > >
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>  > >  Antonio Montagnani
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>  >
>  > and this is my mtab file
>  >
>  > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
>  > proc /proc proc rw 0 0
>  > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
>  > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>  > /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
>  > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
>  > none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
>  > sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
>  > fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
>  > /dev/sdb1 /media/disk vfat
>  > ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500
>  > 0 0
>  >
>  >
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>  /dev/sdb1 /media/disk vfat
>  ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0
>  0
>
>  There it is, change the ro (which is read-only) to rw
>
>
>  /dev/sdb1 /media/disk vfat
>  rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0
>  0
>
>  That should cure it :)
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>  Regards,
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>  Antonio
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mtab is automatically created and I suppose modified when something is
connected/disconnected.
Why does the system set ro to USB disk??? I think that I should not
change any setting by hand (as it was in the past...)

this is before connecting any USB device...


/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0

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