USB cannot be read

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon May 12 17:54:06 UTC 2008


Antonio M wrote:
> 2008/5/11 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/5/11 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>:
>>  >

>>  >
>>
>>  Antonio
>>
>>  I didn't edit by hand mtab....but I carried out a test with a plain
>>  USB stick (not a Mplayer) and mtab set it to rw.
>>  I remember that sometime ago I had a similar problem, someone pointed
>>  out a temporary solution before a final solution was set in Fedora.
>>  I can't understand why I got back to exactly same problem- maybe that
>>  progress is some step forward some steps backward...not sure about
>>  that  :-)
>>
>>  I assume that is a bug in Fedora, but I don't know the component to
>>  fil a bug against
>>
>>  Regards
>>
>>  --
>>  Antonio Montagnani
>>  Skype : antoniomontag
>>
>  I found that a lock button on the device was on but it is still not
> working after unlocking it:
> 
> dmesg output is:
> usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
> usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0402, idProduct=5661
> usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
> usb 2-1: Product: PLAYER
> usb 2-1: Manufacturer: KEENHIGH
> usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 00403000100000000642
> usb-storage: device found at 5
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access              Audio Player          PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 4082688 512-byte hardware sectors (2090 MB)
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 4082688 512-byte hardware sectors (2090 MB)
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdc: sdc1
> sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
> sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
> 
> and mtab is
> /dev/sdc1 /media/disk vfat
> rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500 0 0
> 
> so it should be writable....
> 
> But when I look into proprties (see attached jpeg file) I see that no
> choice for file access
> 
> Any hint???
> 
> 
> 
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> 

Just a thought.

Is this a udev issue?


http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/udev/

-- 
Robin Laing




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