[oclug] Lexar Secure problem

[Bruce]

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:42:58 -0500
M&D Hickson <miden at travel-net.com> wrote:

> I've recently received a 1GB USB Lexar JumpDrive Secure and have run
> into a little problem - it won't let me write to it from a Linux
> machine. No problem when it was tested on that other OS.
> 
> after mounting - mount shows:
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/other type vfat (rw)
> 
> and /etc/mtab shows:
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/other vfat rw 0 0

snip...

I've got a APacer and have similar issues.  But even when it says it
not going to write a file it does anyways.  With the APacer I've got you
can't change the vfat filesystem.  At least that I what I read when I
first got it.



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