Removing write protect from a seagate hard drive

[Joe Zeff]

On 11/21/2012 09:09 AM, JD wrote:
> Since it is an external drive that is detachable, I decided to mount it
> manually.
> I did indeed run fsck and it declared the fs clean.
> When I try to mount it with
> mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/sdd1 /sdd1

I've never had rw work correctly.  Try putting it in fstab, using the 
UID and these options:

auto umask=0000

Or, if you prefer, noauto.  The umask seems to be far more effective.