On Monday 05 July 2004 19:04, Rich wrote:
This problem has plagued me for over 2 months and I'm at my wits end. I've been in the process of moving for the past 3-4 months so haven't been able to do anything about it. The problem , in a nutshell, is that I can not write to my floppy or CD-R drives, even as root. The message is that 'access is denied, could not write to /mnt/floppy/foo.bar.
If I use Supermount to mount the floppy and look at the permissions under properties the option selected is 'Owner can view content'. If I try to select 'Owner can view and modify content' there is an error message that "changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices".
If I try to mount a drive manually the error message is that there are too many file systems, bad superblock, etc. If I try to unmount the drive the message is that there is no drive mounted.
This problem started with MDK 10.0 as downloaded. Thinking that this was the problem, I bought the pak from Mandrake but the problem is still there.
The computer is a Sony Viao laptop but I was having the same problem on my desktop machine.
There are a lot of important files that desperately need backing up, someone please help!
Rich
Please post your /etc/fstab
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0, fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
Rich
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