Read-only access on mp3 player, how to fix? Addenum

[Anthony Dean]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:11 -0600, Anthony Dean wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 10:30 -0500, John DeCarlo wrote:
> > On 11/21/05, Anthony Dean <adean75 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >         I'm having trouble getting a Sandisk Sansa mp3 player (the
> >         e240 model)
> >         to work with Ubuntu (Breezy). At first, it let me copy files
> >         to and from
> >         it (upon plugging it in via the USB port... it's supposed to
> >         work as a
> >         removable USB drive), but then it suddenly wouldn't let me
> >         delete or
> >         copy files to or from the player, giving me "read only disk"
> >         error
> >         messages. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >         /dev/sda1 on /media/sandisk type vfat
> >         (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,user=<myusername>)
> > 
> > Have you tried copying or deleting using sudo?  (sudo
> > rm /media/sandisk/song.mp3)
> > 
> > It seems like your fstab entry is correct, based on the above report
> > from mount.  
> > 
> > You can also use fsck.vfat to see if the file system is messed up.
> 
> I tried "sudo rm /media/sandisk/song.mp3", but get the "read only disk"
> error message. I can copy files from the player to my home directory,
> though.
> 
> How do I use fsck.vfat?
> 
> After more messing with the directions on Ubuntu Guide (for manually
> mounting Windows FAT partitions), in addition to the /etc/fstab editing,
> I got this as "mount":
> 
> >>/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
> tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> /dev/sda1 on /media/sandisk type vfat (rw,iocharset=utf8,umask=000)
> <<
> 
> Directions followed for mounting it manually:
> sudo mkdir /media/sandisk
> sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sandisk -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000
> 
> And yes, I checked---the "hold" button is set to off. :-)
> 
> Not sure what else to do right now... maybe permissions need to be
> changed somewhere (or adding a user name(s) to a group, though not sure
> how to do that exactly)?
> 
> Anthony


Hello again,

I forget the exact command I typed (mounting and then remounting it in
the same command, with "rw" prefixing it; I found the command online
somewhere), but afterwards, the mp3 player reformatted itself, then
worked normally again (at least so far). Thanks for everyone's help...

Anthony
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