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

[jo2y at midnightlinux.com]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, John Harrold wrote:
> 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?

Have you tried running fsck.msdos on this device?

ext2 and some others have mount options for changing the behaviour when 
encountering a FS error, but fat doesn't seem to have the same choice. It 
will only remount read-only.

-james