On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
On 11/20/2012 11:07 PM, JD wrote:
Since I try to mount it as root, and /dev/sdd1 has mode 600, permission
is not
the issue. So, it has to be a disk internal hardware state.

What is your mount command.  If there's an entry in fstab, give that as well, please.

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Since it is an external drive that is detachable, I decided to mount it manually.
I did indeed run fsck and it declared the fs clean.
When I try to mount it with
mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/sdd1 /sdd1
the message said the disk is write protected  mounting read only
I should have copied and pasted the message into a file so I could
paste here. I will try again when the system is not in use.