Re: harddisk "Write Protect" bit

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-05-08 12:17, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  With this, fdisk cannot write to the partition table, mount read-write
> >  cannot work etc.   And specifically just on this PC.
>
> weird.... i just blindly said, something non standard is implemented
> in that drive...or at least in your motherboard...and somehow Linux
> can't cope with that.
>
> perhaps usb sniffing can tell more, but I am not USB guys.... sorry... Greg?

Yes, this sounds more like something for linux-kernel than kernelnewbies -- smells
badly of needing a quirk somewhere.

Rene.

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