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From: Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@attglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:59:31 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608081759.31598.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608080843.17938.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>

On Tuesday 08 August 2006 13:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 00:57 schrieb ext Hemmann, Volker Armin:
> > On Monday 07 August 2006 21:49, sean wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > 	Whenever I mount my USB DVD writer or my SCSI cd-rom writer I always
> > > get the following similar message for either device, root or otherwise.
> > >
> > > mount /mnt/dvd/
> > > mount: block device /dev/sr1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> 
> This is just a hint for you. /dev/sr1 is a read-only device per definition.
> 
> > > Both devices in my fstab have 'noauto,user,rw' but still the write only
> > > message.

Try "modprobe sg" to get a writable device.

HTH
-Robin.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-08 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-07 19:49 [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only sean
2006-08-07 22:57 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-08  6:04   ` Graham Murray
2006-08-08 11:30     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-08-08  6:43   ` Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-08 10:59     ` Robin Atwood [this message]
2006-08-08 11:37       ` Dirk Heinrichs

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