Maxtor One Touch changes to read-only. Why?
I mounted a usb Maxtor one touch on a dell running centos 5. I have no problem mounting the device and using it with Samba but then, for currently unknown reasons, the Maxtor drive becomes read-only. When this happens, I can unmount and then remount the drive and I am back to read-write. Sure enough though, it will fail again at some point and return to a read-only status.
The Maxtor drive is the 1.5 TB model. I used the windows software to create raid 1, then put it on my centos machine and formatted the drive to ext3.
[root@muttley ~]# cat /etc/fstab | grep maxtor
/dev/sda1 /maxtor auto noauto,users 0 0
When drive is fine:
[root@muttley ~]# cat /proc/mounts | grep maxtor
/dev/sda1 /maxtor ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,data=ordered 0 0
When drive has faulted to read-only:
[root@muttley ~]# cat /proc/mounts | grep maxtor
/dev/sda1 /maxtor ext3 ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,data=ordered 0 0
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan
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