On Thursday 02 December 2004 08:40 pm, Steven Pasternak wrote:
My stupid floppy isn't letting me write to it. I use kernel 2.6.7. When mounted as subfs, it says it is a 'read-only filesystem'. When I mount it as vfat I get :
Fuzzy:/home/steven # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only Fuzzy:/home/steven #
and the same with msdos and ext2. I can't format it either. What is wrong? ===========
Steven, Are you using SuSE 9.1 or 9.2? I have only seen this behavior in 9.1, not 9.2, but I think all the 9.2 machines I've updated/installed were altered already by me. I never got the floppy to behave well with the subfs thing running on it under 9.1, so I removed that and put it back to manual, pre 9.x days. Here is how it should appear in your /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 (all one line, of course) After doing that, you can add an icon to your desktop for the floppy and mount & unmount as you have in the past. One oddity I noticed after doing this, the first time you try to unmount a mounted disk, it might tell you only root can unmount it. If it does, then open a shell, login as root and "umount /dev/fd0"! That will take care of it and you should not have any further difficulties. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"