-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun 18 August 2002 12:41 pm, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:50:18 +0100, Alastair Scott a �crit : > > I use a Sony Clie (PEG-425T) and, rather than use jpilot or similar, > > mount the Memory Stick on demand using: > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 <directory> > > > > and read and write to it using the command line. > > > > This has worked flawlessly (and far better than the Windows equivalent!) > > up to and including 9.0 beta 2, but is broken in 9.0 beta 3 (with cooker > > until this morning) as I'm getting messages of the type: > > > > rm: cannot remove <x>: Read-only file system > > > > cp: cannot create regular file <x>: Read-only file system > > > > For some reason the Memory Stick is now considered to be read-only, > > rather than read-write; putting a -w in the mount command doesn't help. > > I've just checked with latest kernel (2.4.19-3mdk) and I don't have any > problem accessing the memory stick from my Cli�.. > > But, with older kernel from 8.2, the vfat of the memory stick could become > corrupted, preventing operations on it.. I suggest you format the memory > stick (using Cli� MSGate), it should fix the problem..
It was fixed by this. Many thanks, but a rather disquieting incident :/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9X8n2dasIDb/2nMwRAl0KAJ91oDce4O7BiUoYm468iojVJnShgACeLV11 QuVHOiY3YawdG/LB0UfgSgE= =Rvlk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
