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Originally Posted by janvanmaar
Which confirms it is not a Calibre issue. Although fsck.vfat does not seem to report errors, it is still possible that formatting would help. However, first I would try other possibilities - it may be your automounter (HAL or whatever is in your version of Ubuntu) causing the problem.
You seem to be at least a bit familiar with command line, so you could try mounting manually in rw mode:
Code:
sudo mkdir /media/sony
sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,remount /dev/sdd /media/sony
sudo mount
The first command creates a manual mount point, the second command mounts the drive in rw mode to the created mount point and the third command just tells you whether it is really mounted in rw mode - it would contain 'rw' in the line with /media/sony mountpoint. You can try and see. |
My version of Ubuntu is 10.04 LTS
When I first connect the reader via USB, Ubuntu's
Disk Utility automatically mounts READER, but not SETTING.
However,
Disk Utility does allow me to mount SETTING manually.
rdh@rdh-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir /media/sony
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/sony': File exists
rdh@rdh-desktop:~$ sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,remount /dev/sdd /media/sony
mount: /media/sony not mounted already, or bad option
rdh@rdh-desktop:~$ sudo mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/rdh/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=rdh)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdc on /media/READER type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000, shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
Whereas, if I mount SETTING manually using
Disk Utility, then
rdh@rdh-desktop:~$ sudo mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/rdh/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=rdh)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sdc on /media/READER type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000, shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush)
/dev/sdf on /media/SETTING type vfat (
ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,sho rtname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1)
Clearly, SETTING is read-only.
I need to go off-line, now.
Will return to this problem some other time.