From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GABDw-0006v1-Ue for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:57:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k77Jra3S008824; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:53:36 GMT Received: from vms048pub.verizon.net (vms048pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.48]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k77Jnhqn007495 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:49:44 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.11] ([72.71.198.100]) by vms048.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J3N007RG8ETH7QN@vms048.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 14:49:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:49:43 -0400 From: sean Subject: [gentoo-user] writable devices being mounted as read only To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44D79957.7020503@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060628) X-Archives-Salt: 2e763ed5-adfb-4bc4-b6d4-7aab7f89cda9 X-Archives-Hash: fe2a06962ff16231667ccc1594e9661a 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 Both devices in my fstab have 'noauto,user,rw' but still the write only message. Anyone give me any tips as to why and how to fix? Thanks Sean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list