Cant write successfully to USB devices

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 01/05/2013 09:44 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> 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?

Fat32, and writing and reading was no problem before.

> what about permissions?

On my system:

-rwxrw-r--

No permissions on the FAT formatted SD card.