[ltp] My hard drive is read-only!!

[Joel Ebel]

I have an unfortunate problem that came up today with my T40.  My 
computer went into standby, and after coming out of it, my hard drive is 
read only.  I can't boot into any OS on the hard drive, which includes 
slackware, redhat, and windows XP.  The hard drive passes all the 
PC-Doctor and Hitachi Drive Fitness Tests, because all those are read 
only.  So everything says my drivs is OK, but I can't write to it.  I 
can boot linux with RUNT, or Knoppix and I can mount most of my 
partitions, and read files.  I just can't write to them.  Or I can write 
a file, but after an unmount/remount it's gone because it was never 
really there.  The one partition I can't mount at all is slackware's 
root partition which is reiserfs.  I'm not sure why I can't mount it 
unless it really has to write to the drive, even if mounted read-only. 
Anyone have any ideas on that?  Anyone know why I can't write to my hard 
drive!?!  I wonder if it's the drive or the controller.  I'll get an 
adapter tomorrow and try the drive in my desktop I guess.  Has anyone 
else had problems like this?

:(
Joel