cant use floppy

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 09 November 2006 19:50, charles f. zeitler wrote:
> --- François Patte
>
> <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:
> > charles f. zeitler a écrit :
> > > trying to mount, mount claims
> > > the device (dev/fd0) is write-protected,
> > > and cant even read the super block.
> > >
> > > trying to format, mkfs is unable to
> > > open /dev/fd0.
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> >
> > Your floppy has its write protection on?
> >
> > --
> > François Patte
> > UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> > Université René Descartes
> > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
>
> i tried it w/ the slide in both positions.
> apparently, its the _drive_ that's write
> protected.
>
> charles f zeitler

Out of interest what does /dev/fd0 show as permissions? I've just looked on 
FC5, and permissions shows, Owner can read and write, Group can read and 
write, and Others forbidden. Ownership is "User" my user name, and "Group" 
Floppy.

Which FC version are you using?

Nigel.
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