On Friday 15 December 2006 20:31, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Vaclav Barta wrote: > > So, sdb looks big enough and sdb1 can be mounted, but just read-only. > > Documentation mentions a "read-only switch" but the hardware doesn't have > > any. :-( How do I remove (or ignore) the write protection? > I don't know. Maybe you can't. Well the raison d'etre of this conversation is that I can't, :-) but Windows can, so why not Linux?
> It would be interesting to see how Windows manages to go about accessing > the first LUN. You could try using a USB sniffer program (like USB > Snoopy) to find out exactly what Windows does. OK, the log generated by SnoopyPro 0.22 (from the stick insertion to Explorer popping up 2 windows with the drives) is at http://www.mangrove.cz/stick/USBLog1.usblog . Bye Vasek ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
