Re: Cant write successfully to USB devices

[Reindl Harald]

Am 06.01.2013 03:41, schrieb Robert Moskowitz:
>  This is on a Lenovo X120e with current f17 patches.
>  
>  Both to my SD slot and to USB drives very recently, writes to USB drives is not working.
>  
>  It seems to work.  I can see the files and open them.  Then I unmount the device move it
> over to another system and
>  that system cannot read the files.  For the SD card, I have tried removing the partition,
> recreating it, and
>  copying the files.  It still fails.
>  
>  Interesting, I successfully copied the files only my Galaxy III (New Verizon software
> makes the III mount as a Win
>  install device, but going to 'Tethering' gets it mounted properly showing all
> directories) and then mounted both
>  the Galaxy and the SD card on the other system and successfully copied files to the SD
> card and opened them.
>  
>  The other system is back-leveled on F17.  Don't know if this is a software or
> hardware problem.  But it is recent. 
>  Only early in the week, I could copy files.
>  
>  How can I troubleshoot this? 
what filesystem?
what about permissions?