Comment 2 for bug 159711

I seemed to find a cause and woraround.

What happended was, when I unplugged it from the Mac's at school without properly unmounting it, it would not mount at home, and was being read as "read only".
when I returned to school and plugged it back in to any Mac, and *then* properly unmounted it like I should have in the first place, Upon returning home the drive mounted and read correctly in Gutsy, Including write access.

It is important to note that Mac OS X will mount and write to the drive regardless of wether or not I unmounted it correctly the last time. It will always mount it correctly the next time.

So the drives mounting correctly in Gutsy are seemingly dependant on whether or not someone unmounts a volume correctly in another OS. At least OS X.

This update only effects the LaCie external drive. The LaCie drive is a Mac formatted HFS+ drive.

The Fat 32 formatted iPod seems to be a different bug at least that's my guess.

Fat 32 drives do not mount in my computer at all regardless of being (read only) or not. Unmounting my iPod correctly in Windows or OS X has no effect on whether or not it mounts correctly in Gutsy It doesn't mount at all, and neither do any other USB Fat 32 formatted drives such as my roomate's USB flash stick.