Problem with USB

[Mario Spinthiras]

File permissions on /media maybe? ls -al /media/. please

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Pat Brown <pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com>wrote:

> It's Hardy, 8.04 LTS. I can read and write to the USB from my ASUS EEE
> PC and I can read from my Laptop and copy files off it. I ran some tests
> I found online and it looks like it's corrupt. I'm not ready yet to
> format it and lose the data. I'll just keep it as a spare.
>
> Pat Brown
> pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com
> http://www.pabrown.ca/
>
> L.A. Heat, now hotter than ever!
>
>
>
>
> Brian McKee wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Pat Brown <pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I looked this issue up in the archives, but while I found that others
> >> seem to have this problem the one thread I found didn't give a solution.
> >> When I insert my USB memory stick into my laptop it comes up as
> >> read-only. I am no longer able to save files to it. I can't find
> >> anything physical on the device which might have been set to read-only.
> >> So does anyone have any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > gutsy or hardy or  ?
> >
> > I remember vaguely issues like that in gutsy.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
>
> It's Hardy, 8.04 LTS. I can read and write to the USB from my ASUS EEE
> PC and I can read from my Laptop and copy files off it. I ran some tests
> I found online and it looks like it's corrupt. I'm not ready yet to
> format it and lose the data. I'll just keep it as a spare.
>
> Pat Brown
> pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com
> http://www.pabrown.ca/
>
> L.A. Heat, now hotter than ever!
>
>
>
>
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Mario A. Spinthiras
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