Comment 3 for bug 14318

sorry, i forgot about this report. the issuse still occures.

i reformated the usb flash drive with gparted to a single primary fat16 partition

then with the switch set to readwrite
connect the drive, it mounts and nautilus pops up a window.
mount says
/dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
the drive works as it should, i can make new files and they are still there if i
unmount and remount

now, set drive to read only and connect
mount says
/dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,noatime,quiet,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf8)
create a new folder with nautilus. looks like it worked
ls /media/usbdisk says
untitled folder
looks like the folder really has been created

after a few minutes ls /mount/usbdisk says nothing. and refreshing nautilus says
that the new folder is gone.

then i tried
mkdir foo
ls shows that it made the folder, and it shows up in nautilus.

then it disapeared again.

now getting
mkdir: cannot create directory `foo2': Input/output error
and sometimes
mkdir: cannot create directory `foo2': Read-only file system

but mount still says rw.

summery

this is a lower level issue than nautilus.
the ghost files only last a short time, possibly there is a disk sync every so
often?

some info about the usb drive
acording to the device manager
vendor : Alcor Micro Corp.

there are to chips in the drive
ALCOR MICRO
AU9381A21-CAL
MGQCL-000
0326

SAMSUNG 337
K9FIG08UOM
YCBO