On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 02:37:51PM -0800, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> Actually, that was with a couple of day old current.  Using today's
> current I can mount it "ro" and read it just fine.  Neat!

Strange, I don't know what changed which could make it work ...

> 
>         mount -t msdos -r /dev/wd1e /mnt 
> 
> Mounting it "rw" gives some soft (correctable) errors/timeouts.
> Perhaps this is some file access-time being updated?

Yes, or maybe the metatada timestamps.
What's the exact error message ?

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