My floppy is read only, all the time, regardless of floppy or how tab is set it always sees it a write protected drive currently using this from /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 orginally I had this in /etc/fstab and only root could mount or umount floppy and most operations attempts gave an error that it was not allowed with protocol drives. /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 neither works properly anyone know what the fix it- as with my Umaxs 1220s scanner everything worked ok with SuSE 8.0, and 9.0 (BTW: still have problems with the Umax 1220s scanner not working, gave up on that one, can reboot to SuSE 9.0 to use the scanner) thanks in advance
The Wednesday 2005-03-30 at 23:55 -0500, joe lerch wrote:
My floppy is read only, all the time, regardless of floppy or how tab is set it always sees it a write protected drive
currently using this from /etc/fstab:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
orginally I had this in /etc/fstab and only root could mount or umount floppy and most operations attempts gave an error that it was not allowed with protocol drives.
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
Currently I have: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 and I have just created a file as user (FAT floppy). Then I ejected the file, and put it back in. I can see the file, but I get a read error. CRC error and such... go figure, it can be the media, or bad write by the software. I edited the fstab file to manual mount only: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 Notice that I don't need the "sync" option on manual mount, as long as I remember to umount before eject. Now I can read the file, but it contains garbage. I'll format the disk with gfloppy, format and verify. Mmmm, it finds lots of errors.... just my bad luck, but I don't have more empty floppies. Pity the are so bad quality nowdays - and it is a Basf! :-/ But I can write to it, no problems there. I'm using 9.1 too. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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