when connecting with it set to rw usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 15 scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 15 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Generic Model: Flash Disk Rev: 7.77 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host14/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi14, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! when connecting with it set to ro usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 16 scsi15 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 16 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Generic Model: Flash Disk Rev: 7.77 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host15/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi15, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! i also noticed that after making a newfolder, and waiting for a minute for it to resync and the new folder to disapear this get dumped in dmesg SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 265 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 202 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 500 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 437 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 534 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 471 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 207018 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 206955 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 207019 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 206956 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 207020 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 206957 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 SCSI error : <15 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Info fld=0x0, Current sda: sense key Data Protect Additional sense: Write protected end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 207021 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 206958 lost page write due to I/O error on sda1 and nautilus wont let me make a new folder saying "error "read only file system" creating new folder"