On Jul 4, 5:53 pm, Matt Giwer <jul...@tampabay.REMover.rr.com> wrote:
> lalawawa wrote:
> > Hi, I just bought a 400Mbyte usb disk.
>
> > My OS is Ubuntu version 5, I've recently done the updates to it.
>
> > My computer is a Sony VAIO PCV-RX270DS that I bought in 2001, with
> > about 400Mbytes of disk and the usb port is USB 1 (that manual doesn't
> > say which USB version because I think USB 2.0 wasn't out yet). The
> > disk is connected through a hub.
>
> > The drive is a 400GB Simpletech drive. The specifications make it
> > clear it's USB 1.1 compatible. All the online technical support
> > assumes you're on Windows.
>
> > When I turn on the disk, it appears in the /media directory by the
> > filename ' simpletech ' (not spaces before and after the name). The
> > fstab entry that appears is
>
> > /dev/sda /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
>
> > If I cd to /media and do 'ls -ld \ simpletech\ ', I get
> > dr-x------ 1 wulluw wulluw 4096 2007-02-20 10:25 simpletech
> > if I go into that directory and do 'ls -la' I get
> > total 8
> > dr-x------ 1 wulluw wulluw 4096 2007-02-20 10:25 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-07-04 14:20 ..
> > dr-x------ 1 wulluw wulluw 0 2007-02-20 10:25 System Volume
> > Information
> > if I try 'touch a' it says
> > touch: cannot touch `a': Read-only file system
> > if I try 'sudo touch a' it still says
> > touch: cannot touch `a': Read-only file system
> > I cd back to /media
> > $ chmod +w \ simpletech\ /
> > chmod: changing permissions of ` simpletech /': Read-only file system
> > $ sudo chmod +w \ simpletech\ /
> > chmod: changing permissions of ` simpletech /': Read-only file system
>
> > Why is it saying the filesystem is readonly when /etc/fstab clearly
> > says it's rw? What do I have to do to get the disk mounted rw? A
> > 400GB readonly disk with nothing on it isn't very useful.
>
> > Any help would be appreciated.
>
> What kind of filesystem did you put on it when you formatted it?
>
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I did not format the drive. I just bought it, brought it home,
plugged it into the USB hub and turned it on.
How would I go about formatting the drive? I would want the drive to
be also readable if I hook it up to a windows machine.