February 1, 200917 yr Hi, Whilst recently trying to write to my sons PSP (it uses a SONY memory stick pro duo) I got an error saying that the drive was write protected??? The disk has no physical 'lock' so I guessed it must be a software issue... I plugged it straight into my windows box but was unable to format as it was giving me the same message! Then I had the brainwave of putting it in my unRAID tower I can see the drive as [sdk] but it still wont let me do anything to it (tried fdisk etc) My syslog has the following lines: Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] 7929856 512-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB) Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Write Protect is on Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00 Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] 7929856 512-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB) Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Write Protect is on Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00 Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through It seems that the write protection is causing me an issue... so how do I remove it? (I'm hoping the stick isnt trashed as these have rocketed in price in the UK) I'm a Linux noob away from the unraid interface so please be gentle.
February 1, 200917 yr Hi, Whilst recently trying to write to my sons PSP (it uses a SONY memory stick pro duo) I got an error saying that the drive was write protected??? The disk has no physical 'lock' so I guessed it must be a software issue... I plugged it straight into my windows box but was unable to format as it was giving me the same message! Then I had the brainwave of putting it in my unRAID tower I can see the drive as [sdk] but it still wont let me do anything to it (tried fdisk etc) My syslog has the following lines: Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] 7929856 512-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB) Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Write Protect is on Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00 Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] 7929856 512-byte hardware sectors (4060 MB) Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Write Protect is on Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00 Feb 1 16:06:33 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:3: [sdk] Assuming drive cache: write through It seems that the write protection is causing me an issue... so how do I remove it? (I'm hoping the stick isnt trashed as these have rocketed in price in the UK) I'm a Linux noob away from the unraid interface so please be gentle. I have never tried it, but this program looks like it may work for what you are trying to do... Here is an english description of the program: http://www.techsnack.net/write-protect-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-virus And the site to download it... http://www.gaijin.at/dlusbwp.php - although the site is in German(it looks like), the program can be run in english. Cheers, Matt
February 2, 200917 yr Author Thanks for the suggestion Matt! Unfortunately the disk is still write protected... I think it must be totalled :'( (I'm guessing it must have been removed before a write was completed) Cheers J
February 2, 200917 yr It might not be the same in your case but I've seen this happen multiple times before. Every time it has ended up being a bad memory card or flash drive. If you do find anything that fixes this please let us know!
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