[clue] external storage issues

[Dennis J Perkins]

No.  Writing just became unavailable.  I wasn't aware that it could be turned off.  Or why anyone would want to.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 05:27:04 PM daryl kuchay wrote:
> Did you turn off indexing on the widows side for the drives in question?
> 
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dennis J Perkins <
> dennisjperkins at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if anyone in CLUE has seen these issues, If you have, do you
> > have a solution?
> >
> > Two Seagate FreeAgent drives quit working properly with Windows.  Windows
> > could still see them but writing would fail.  Linux couldn't write to them
> > either.  I
> > reformatted them and put a fileystem back on, and they work again.
> >
> > I have a couple of USB memory keys that I use with Windows and Linux.  I
> > can't write to them from Linux anymore but Windows can.  I can probably
> > reformat them
> > and be able to write to them again, but I'm trying to find out what
> > happened.  The keys that I use only with Windows have never had this
> > problem.  I'm guessing
> > that Windows did something to those two keys.
> >
> > The Seagate is automatically mounted so only root can write to it.  My
> > Passport, on the other hand, mounts so a normal user can write to it.  I
> > might need to dig
> > down into the udev configuration to find out what is happening.  Maybe the
> > Seagate is being identified as a 3 1/2" internal drive; it's certainly big
> > enough for it.
> >
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