Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

[Ken Heard <ken@heard.name>]

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On 2019-10-02 2:51 a.m., tomas@tuxteam.de wrote, in part:

> Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in 
> your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a 
> physical switch is just communicated to your drivers via some 
> protocol over USB.

Interesting point.  So it is likely a permanent hardware failure after
all.

Ken

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