Obivous question - the write protect tab was off - yes <G>? Check back through the archives. Someone else had a problem with a floppy no tlong ago - like last week or so.
On Sunday 23 November 2003 19:02, you wrote: > I'm repairing a computer for a nonbeliever and don't have it up on my > lan yet. I d'loaded some soundblaster drivers and was trying to write > the file to a floppy. When I tried to format the floppy on the Gentoo > box I got a write protected error so I formatted on the wife's WinXP > box and tried to mount it back here: > > $ mount /mnt/floppy > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > relevant line in fstab looks good to me. > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,users,auto,rw 0 0 > Could my floppy drive have died? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
