[Techtalk] Zip drive read-only

[Robyn Manning]

Hi,

Are there any settings for your zip drive in /etc/fstab ? Could these be
making it read-only?

Robyn

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:57, E. Sterling Wall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently upgraded to Mandrake 8.2 and I can't write to my Zip disks
> any more!!!  This is just too weird for words. I can mount the zip drive
> just fine, but the system *insists* that the zip is read-only media.
> I've tried swapping disks to see if it was the disk itself, but it's
> not.
> 
> Here's how I've mounted the zip drive:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
> 
> Then if I ls -la in /mnt I get
> drwxr-xr-x     3    root    root       16384    Jan 1 1970  zip/
> 
> I tried to cheat the system by chowning the drive to sterling (my
> "normal" username on the system), but I got an error saying that wasn't
> allowed -- even though I was running as root at the time. 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> - sterling
> 
> 
> 
> 
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