mounting usb rw

[jack wallen]

i have googled and googled until my eyes are strained...i have a memorex 
usb mp3 player that mounts just fine in 7.10. only problem is i can only 
get it to mount ro. i have tried everything and can not get it to mount 
rw.  my entry in fstab is:

/dev/sdb1       /media/mp3      auto    rw,user,noauto          0 0

when it mounts it mounts with the following permissions:

drwxr-xr-x   2 jlwallen jlwallen 16384 2008-06-19 08:37 mp3

dmesg gives mes:

[52406.012241] usb 1-7: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and 
address 8
[52406.227994] usb 1-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[52406.234006] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[52406.234064] usb-storage: device found at 8
[52406.234067] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[52411.231268] usb-storage: device scan complete
[52411.242269] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Memorex  MMP8565          
0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[52411.253738] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 510464 2048-byte hardware sectors (1045 MB)
[52411.260249] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[52411.260255] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3e 00 00 00
[52411.260258] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[52411.279227] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 510464 2048-byte hardware sectors (1045 MB)
[52411.286229] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[52411.286235] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 3e 00 00 00
[52411.286238] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[52411.286242]  sdb: sdb1
[52411.300287] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[52411.300335] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0


any ideas?

thank you so much.

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