Quote Originally Posted by kermitq
no, the problem is not so silly as You thought...
Maybe I understand what you mean.
I've experienced this isssue with 'exhotic' devices. With 'exhotic' I mean not simply usb_key but such devices as PSP(sony). Knoppix installs (not live_cd, not tried) completly fails to mount it. I can mount such devices only with a kanotix install, but they will be recognized as 'read_only_file_ system', and after an 'ls -l /media/sda1' check I have a result like:
Code:
-rx-r------- guest guest .....
And even after become root and giving a 'chmod 777 /media/sda1' command the shell again says 'read-only file system!'.
This not always happen and once I was able to mount a PSP on knoppix/kanotix_install with r/w rights.
To avoid the only_read_fs_issue maybe is necessary crete a filesystem from scratch [mkfs.vfat...], but not tried, being PSPs of costumers and not mine.