Comment 6 for bug 14318

We can skip the directory tests from now on. All the directory "is there and
disappear" effect is due
to the VFS layer not recongnizing that the device is ro. As a consequenze all
the applications
will behave in the same way.

Can you please do another test for me?

Plug the device in ro mode (no need to do extra testing in rw).
as user do:
pumount /media/<path>

as root do:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

(or similar)

and check if mount spaws a warning about the device being ro.

If it doesn't, than the device is not reporting information correctly to
the kernel and there is absolutely nothing i can do about it.

I have a similar rw/ro key here and it is working fine.. so i suspect
an hardware problem. It would also be interesting to see if it happens
on i386. Perhaps some USB specs are misinterpreted on ppc.

Fabio