I WOULD have posted this on the thread at viewtopic.php?f=53&t=8590&p=45767&hilit=write+protect#p45767, but that one is already locked.
I have tried the various fixes suggested in that thread, nothing will make the USB stick mountable on a Linux Mint host. The USB will not boot the Pogo V4 it had been on. Originally this was supposed to be my NAS host, but after my other Pogo4 Mobile quit working (*also running Arch) I put this one to Jumpbox duties.
I lost power on this unit **ONCE** without doing a regular powerdown, and that one time was enough to trash the filesystem. That's exactly what happened with the other Pogo4, except that one would never boot again even after creating new USB sticks with the Arch install on them. I can only presume this one got bricked in the same way, and I'll probably have to trash this one as well. But before I take a sledgehammer to it, I'd like to mount it and recover some files off of it's USB stick, and maybe (just maybe) get it working again. So what is available for force-mounting USB?