[Frugalware-forums] usb stick!

[gigi]

hola!
today i've partitioned my usb stick with 2 partitions;
sdX1 1,2G fat16 + sdX 0,8G ext3
no prob with fat but ext3 is read only.
my user is in storage and disk group...
tried to change 50-udev.rules in the scsi devices section setting all modes to 660.
now konqueror tells me this is writable but if i try to create a dir i get an access error.

questions:
1- where i have to look?
2- can be an hardware problem? (the stick manual says it can be partitioned like a standard disk)
3- if hal talks of (and i'm on) the storage and disk group why the stick is mounted as root only?
4- do you know of a comfortable gui to setup hal? (i've little time to spend on configurations...:)

here the log from
---/var/log/messages-------------------------------

Jun 12 11:57:56 cazun kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
Jun 12 11:57:56 cazun kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jun 12 11:57:56 cazun kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  4.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: scsi 3:0:0:1: CD-ROM            SanDisk  U3 Cruzer Micro  4.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 3999373 512-byte hardware sectors (2048 MB)
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] 3999373 512-byte hardware sectors (2048 MB)
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sr 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 5
Jun 12 11:58:02 cazun kernel: kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
Jun 12 11:58:02 cazun kernel: EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
Jun 12 11:58:02 cazun kernel: EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
Jun 12 11:58:02 cazun kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Jun 12 11:58:02 cazun hald: mounted /dev/sda2 on behalf of uid 1000
Jun 12 11:58:03 cazun hald: mounted /dev/sda1 on behalf of uid 1000

---/var/log/syslog-------------------------------

Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 12 11:58:01 cazun kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/40x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
Jun 12 11:58:03 cazun kernel: FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!

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ps: /var/log/messages on my laptop shows this error too:
udevd_event[13134]: udev_rules_apply_format: unknown format char 'e'

thanks...