[wplug] usb disks on fedora core 3 become read only.

[John Harrold]

I'm using fedora core 3 as a desktop and I have an issue. After plugging in
the device the hal daemon creates a device (e.g. /dev/sdc1). Now I can
mount the device and write to it. After a while, if I try to write to the
disk, I will get an error saying the file system is read only. Then I can
remount it and it's writeable for a while then it becomes read only. Though
the mount command says it's read writable. I've found someone having a
similar problem here:

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-March/msg03021.html

The delima here is that updating my neuros (mp3 player) takes a while.
After it's done most of the work reading the files available it cannot
write the database. My temporary hack is to run the following:

 watch -n 15 mount -o remount /media/usbdisk/

Which seems to make sure it's writable.

The logs have the following: 

 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdc1)
 kernel:     fat_bmap_cluster: request beyond EOF (i_pos 37068626)
 kernel:     File system has been set read-only
 kernel: FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdc1)
 kernel:     fat_bmap_cluster: request beyond EOF (i_pos 37068626)

Has anyone had similar problems? Can anyone make sense of the logs?

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