mediawriter won't finish

[Geoffrey Leach]

Running Fedora 32, up-to-date

Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk Cruzer
32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until its done
(by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't write the drive.
"Destination drive not writable"

The USB port is operable.

Suggestions?

[Geoffrey Leach]

Hmmm ... write protected. :-(

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 15:26:51 -0800
Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> Running Fedora 32, up-to-date
>
> Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk
> Cruzer 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until
> its done (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't write
> the drive. "Destination drive not writable"
>
> The USB port is operable.
>
> Suggestions?
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[George N. White III]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 19:27, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> Running Fedora 32, up-to-date
>
> Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk Cruzer
> 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until its done
> (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't write the drive.
> "Destination drive not writable"
>
> The USB port is operable.
> Suggestions?

Is the USB media new or previously used?

mediawriter is going to reformat the USB media, so why not try removing
existing partitions with Gnome DIsks and maybe creating new partitions
and filesystem.

[Geoffrey Leach]

I formatted the USB drive for vfat and -- supprise -- it is mountable
rw. So I convlude that it is the iso9660 that's the couse of the
problem. It is new media. Same thing with a micro SD.

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 21:03:04 -0400
"George N. White III"  wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 19:27, Geoffrey Leach  wrote:
> > Running Fedora 32, up-to-date
> >
> > Running mediawriter-4.1.7-1.fc32.x86_64 (as root) with a SanDisk
> > Cruzer 32G USB drive, mediawriter continues without complaint until
> > its done (by the progress bar) and then aborts saying it can't
> > write the drive. "Destination drive not writable"
> >
> > The USB port is operable.
> > Suggestions?
>
> Is the USB media new or previously used?
>
> mediawriter is going to reformat the USB media, so why not try
> removing existing partitions with Gnome DIsks and maybe creating new
> partitions and filesystem.