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Sep 24 11:06:10 <aidehua> My slug (running Debian etch) says that my Western Digital MyBook external disk is 'write protect'.  My PC says it isn't.  How can I mount my disk RW on my slug?
Sep 24 11:07:30 <kolla> NTFS?
Sep 24 11:07:54 <kolla> it totally depends on the filesystem
Sep 24 11:08:36 <kolla> when you say "My PC", is that PC running windows, or linux, or whatever?
Sep 24 11:08:54 <aidehua> kolla: I think it's more of a USB problem, rather than a filesystem issue.
Sep 24 11:09:07 <aidehua> (It's an ext3 disk that's mounting fine on my Ubuntu intel PC.)
Sep 24 11:09:10 <kolla> linux typically marks filesystems as "write-protected" if it detects anormalities
Sep 24 11:09:12 <kolla> ok
Sep 24 11:09:30 <kolla> and what happens if you try to remount it with read-write?
Sep 24 11:09:32 <kolla> on the slug
Sep 24 11:09:34 <aidehua> "sdb: Write Protect is on"
Sep 24 11:09:53 <kolla> ok.. no idea, never seen that
Sep 24 11:09:56 <aidehua> ^^ this is from dmesg.  I've checked that the disk doesn't have a write-protect switch that I've accidentally flicked :D
Sep 24 11:10:02 <kolla> :)
Sep 24 11:10:18 <aidehua> Mount says 'mount: block device /dev/sdb1 is write-protected, mounting read-only'.
Sep 24 11:10:36 <kolla> hm, ok.. then I'm lost, sorry :)
Sep 24 11:10:45 <aidehua> I wonder if there's a tool that lets me force usb-storage to ignore whatever it thinks might be the 'write protect' status of a USB device.
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