On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Debbie Tropiano wrote: > Folks - > > I was using my Kanguru USB drive with my Fedora Core 1 system and > it got hung up on a umount. I was working on too many things at > once, didn't notice it and just pulled out the drive. The filesystem > on it was erased (plus the data .. I've got that elsewhere, thankfully) > but now I can't mount it or reformat it. Every time I try, I get the > message that it's write protected. Of course, I've moved the switch > back and forth several times, but it still won't format (I've tried > a RedHat 9 system and WinXP as well but all messages about it state > that is it can't be written to). > > I've tried fdisk, mkdosfs and everything else that I can think of, > but the partition is gone and the USB drive "thinks" that it's in > write protect mode no matter how the switch is set (yes, I did try > setting it to lock and formatting, but that didn't help :-). > > Is there any way to fix this?
Given the symptoms you described and the fact that the drive fails with multiple operating systems, your only recourse is to send it in for servicing. Although unplugging a mounted drive might mess up a filesystem, it certainly won't cause a write-protect switch to stop working! Some part must be broken or burned out. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
