[arch-general] USB Flash drive problems

[Todd Carnes]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 18:58:09 +0000
"P .NIKOLIC" <p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi .
> 
> Just purchased several  SanDisk 4Gb Cruzer Blade USB flash drives  but
> can not access any of them . the only error report i can find just
> says 
> An error occurred while accessing `3.7GiB Removable Media`, the system
> responded: An unspecified error has occurred.: Not Authorized
> 
> This happens both as user or root  , any other non SanDisk flash drive
> is fine  . I was hoping to put music on them for the car as the system
> incar can only read 4 Gb Max drives these seemed ideal  look like they
> may bee a bummer .
> 
> Any tips anyone ..
> 
> 
> Pete .
> 
> 
> -- 
> Linux 7-of-9 3.6.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 09:49:00 CET 2012
> x86_64 GNU/Linux

When this happened to me, I did the following to fix it...

# pacman -S ntfs-3g

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Todd Carnes <toddcarnes at gmail.com>