Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/21/2012 03:07 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 11/20/2012 11:54 PM, Jens Neu wrote:
>> On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 06:29:44 +0100, users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
>>> Is there a system util to use to issue
>>> a command to a hard drive to remove
>>> write protect?
>> What kind of write protect do you mean? I have never heard from a software write protect in common hard disks. I've seen quite a lot IDE Compact Flash "disks" that have hardware switches for this but not PATA or SATA hdds
>> -jens
> There has to be some sort of hard drive state that sets the drive into read-only
> mode. When I try to mount the drive rw, the error message is that the drive is
> read only.
> Since I try to mount it as root, and /dev/sdd1 has mode 600, permission is not
> the issue. So, it has to be a disk internal hardware state.
>

did you run fsck on /dev/sdd1 ?

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