> From: "rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote:
> >
> > > > I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE
except
> > read
> > > > it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get
a
> > > > 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get
it
> > to
> > > > work"
> > > >
> > > > Rich
> > >
> > > Is the disk write protected?
> >
> > What does the /etc/fstab line look like?
> >
> > Does it have 'rw'?
> >
> > David
> >
> > No 'rw'. And am now having the same problem with the CD-ROM drive.
> > Here's the fstab:
> >
> > /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
> > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto
umask=0,user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
> > none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,ro,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda8 /usr ext3 noatime 1 2
> > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > Dick
Well I am a new user myself. So, I am not sure what all the parameters
mean.
But, here is a copy of my floppy fstab line and some comments.
MINE none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0
YOURS none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2 ,--,umask=0,user
\___/ \__/
this probably lets it read DOS and Linux disks__/ /
/
this is probably your problem, the user flag turns off __/
a lot of other flags (see man mount for details)
MINE ,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
YOURS ,iocharset=iso8859-1, codepage=850 0 0
\__/
/
I think this causes all writes to occure immediately.
Try removing the 'user' flag and see if that works. I would guess that the
sync flag would be good for floppies since you might remove a floppy while
there was still some buffered data.
HTH...David
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