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

[Joel Ebel]

The partitions are mounted rw.  And I can't even write to my fat32 
partition in DOS.  I'm pretty sure it's just the drive.  IBM is sending 
a replacement on Monday.  When I get it and successfully get everything 
backed up, I'll play around with it more.  But I'm almost certain there 
is just some elctrical or mechanical failure that will let me read, but 
not write to this drive.

Joel

Alexander Gran wrote:
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> Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2003 21:57 schrieb Joel Ebel:
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>>Well, NTFS, I never mount writeable anyway.  My fat32 and ext3 partition
>>I can mount either way.  If I mount it writeable and write a file to it,
>>after an unmount and remount it's gone.  It never really got written.  I
>>can't mount my reiserfs partition at all since even a ro partition needs
>>to be able to write something.  I don't really understand reiserfs, but
>>apparently that's true.  fsck tests fine, badblocks comes up blank.  PC
>>doctor and Hitachi Drive Fitness Tools test fine because none of those
>>write to the drive.  I tried the drive in a different computer and it
>>does the same thing, so it's definitely a problem with the drive.
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> Have you tried to write to a special device (/dev/hda?) directly, wg echo and 
> read it out again? (You'll destroy your filesystems, of course).
> 
> regards
> Alex
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