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tadramgo

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 3

[SOLVED]Unable to write to USB External Hard Drive Seagate SRD00F2 1TB

Hello,

I've been using arch for around 6 months, and have got an external harddrive to backup and transfer work.

For some reason my auto mount has stopped working, so I'm trying to do a backup and reinstall.

However, I've tried to manually mount an external drive but despite chmodding it for my user account (tom), it won't let me copy in the filemanager, or from the command-line, either as the user or root. I can view and execute files, but cannot write.

$ ls -l
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 tom storage 4096 Aug  6 02:10 usbdrive

$ cp -R /home/tom /media/usbdrive
cp: cannot create directory '/media/usbdrive/tom': Operation not permitted

Anyone got any ideas?

hdparm output:

$ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1:

ATA device, with non-removable media
	Model Number:       ST1000DL002-9TT153                      
	Serial Number:      W1V1DJFB
	Firmware Revision:  CC98    
	Transport:          Serial, SATA Rev 3.0
Standards:
	Used: unknown (minor revision code 0x0029) 
	Supported: 8 7 6 5 
	Likely used: 8
Configuration:
	Logical		max	current
	cylinders	16383	16383
	heads		16	16
	sectors/track	63	63
	--
	CHS current addressable sectors:   16514064
	LBA    user addressable sectors:  268435455
	LBA48  user addressable sectors: 1953525168
	Logical  Sector size:                   512 bytes
	Physical Sector size:                  4096 bytes
	Logical Sector-0 offset:                  0 bytes
	device size with M = 1024*1024:      953869 MBytes
	device size with M = 1000*1000:     1000204 MBytes (1000 GB)
	cache/buffer size  = unknown
	Nominal Media Rotation Rate: 5900
Capabilities:
	LBA, IORDY(can be disabled)
	Standby timer values: spec'd by Standard, no device specific minimum
	R/W multiple sector transfer: Max = 16	Current = ?
	Recommended acoustic management value: 208, current value: 208
	DMA: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 
	     Cycle time: min=120ns recommended=120ns
	PIO: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
	     Cycle time: no flow control=120ns  IORDY flow control=120ns
Commands/features:
	Enabled	Supported:
	   *	SMART feature set
	    	Security Mode feature set
	   *	Power Management feature set
	   *	Write cache
	   *	Look-ahead
	   *	Host Protected Area feature set
	   *	WRITE_BUFFER command
	   *	READ_BUFFER command
	   *	DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
	    	SET_MAX security extension
	   *	Automatic Acoustic Management feature set
	   *	48-bit Address feature set
	   *	Device Configuration Overlay feature set
	   *	Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
	   *	FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
	   *	SMART error logging
	   *	SMART self-test
	   *	General Purpose Logging feature set
	   *	64-bit World wide name
	    	Write-Read-Verify feature set
	   *	WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
	   *	{READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
	   *	Segmented DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
	   *	Gen1 signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
	   *	Gen2 signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
	   *	Phy event counters
	   *	unknown 76[15]
	    	Device-initiated interface power management
	   *	Software settings preservation
	   *	SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
	   *	SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
	   *	SCT Features Control (AC4)
	   *	SCT Data Tables (AC5)
	    	unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)
Security: 
	Master password revision code = 65534
		supported
	not	enabled
	not	locked
	not	frozen
	not	expired: security count
		supported: enhanced erase
	160min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 160min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 5000c5005308b9c4
	NAA		: 5
	IEEE OUI	: 000c50
	Unique ID	: 05308b9c4
Checksum: correct

Last edited by tadramgo (2012-09-26 16:16:33)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to write to USB External Hard Drive Seagate SRD00F2 1TB

Is it mounted read-only?

tadramgo

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to write to USB External Hard Drive Seagate SRD00F2 1TB

I'm using this command to mount:

sudo mount -o gid=storage,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive

fdisk -l also produces:

$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204885504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525167 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x56237f13

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1            2048  1953521663   976759808    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Last edited by tadramgo (2012-09-26 15:34:20)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to write to USB External Hard Drive Seagate SRD00F2 1TB

What's the output of 'findmnt' after you've mounted that drive?

Edit: Wait wait wait. I know what's wrong. Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G how to write to NTFS filesystem.

Last edited by karol (2012-09-26 15:49:52)

tadramgo

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Registered: 2012-09-26

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED]Unable to write to USB External Hard Drive Seagate SRD00F2 1TB

Problem solved! Thank you! I knew I'd be missing something simple...

Cheers again.