Iomega Screenplay 360GB drive read only

rjbeltran · 10-30-2007, 10:28 AM

I just bought a new multimedia hard disk and when I mount it I cannot write to it, only read. I am using Slackware 12.0. I tried changing premissions and owner and it seems impossible to write to the drive.
Can anybody help?

pwc101 · 10-30-2007, 01:25 PM

1. What format is the drive? ext3, ntfs, fat32?
2. What's the output of these three commands:

Code:

cat /etc/fstab
mount
fdisk -l # do this one as root

rjbeltran · 10-31-2007, 04:15 AM

Just made it work and you were in the right path. The drive was ntfs and I formatted it as FAT32. It works great now and iomega says that it is suppose to work on the TV as well although I haven't tried yet. The only minor problem is that it limits the file size to 4GB...
Thanks for the help!

pwc101 · 10-31-2007, 04:25 AM

No problem