[Techtalk] Zip drive read-only

[Ms. Piglet]

Prelim research here (same situation) says yes, it's lack of r/w
specification in /etc/fstab that's causing it to default to read-only....

More detail to follow as soon as we debug it entirely on our mandrake 8.2.
<g>

--pig, having an Edumikashunal Experience, and thankful that Sterling found
the bug before she did

On 5/26/02 2:08 AM,  <rmanning at adam.com.au> shared this thought:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sumgai Technology
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>> 
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