[wellylug] USB flash drive woes with 2.6.9

[Andrew]

OK, an update on where I am with this. The little write-protect switch
was set to unlock - read/write. I experimentally flicked this to lock,
and it mounted fine. But it allowed me to 'touch' a new file, although
that wasn't there when I umounted, replugged, and remounted. I tried
flicking the switch back to unlock, but that just got me FAT errors. 

I managed to mount it fine again by switching it to unlock, and
explicitly giving an '-r' (read-only) option to 'mount', but now I'm
getting the same FAT errors even if I mount it read-only. 

I have to stress it was behaving perfectly reasonably with 2.6.3. 

It's an Imation flash device, if that's worth anything. 

I'm going to try compiling the kernel with the USB Mass Storage
Write-Protected Media Detection enabled, even though it's
experimental, and with Mass Storage Verbose Debug.



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