On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 14:40, Nick Baker wrote:
anyone had the experience of not being able to write to fd0?
And John replied:
Yes, I have had exactly the same problem. Turned out that the floppy was
flagged read only in the bios.
If I was a betting man, my money would be on the bios!
Thanks for the tip, John but it wasn't the bios, so I guess it is a good
thing you are not a betting man %={)>
And Francisco Acaraz suggested:
If you are using konqueror for those write operation forget it; use
krusader or nautilus. Konqueror hang my computer when I try to write a
floppy, but with krusader or nautilus I have not problems.
Thanks--I am using Konqueror, and as Femme explains below, there is a
related bug in Konqueror but that doesn't explain why I couldn't write to
floppy in a terminal.
FemmeFatale opined:
Don't know if this will help, Nick, but Konqueror has a bug in it that
prevents copying to a floppy from an open Konqueror window.
That you can't do it from a term suggests *the obvious sorry* that it
may not be mounted?
Thanks, Femme--I didn't know about the bug, but since I am in Paranoid
security mode, many mysteries happen in gui, so I generally move to console
mode when I can't make things work in GUI. And the floppy was mounted
James offered:
mine does and my fstab line is
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat
iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,nosuid,user,noauto,nodev,codepage=850,
unhide 0 0
Thaks, James. I suspect that might work if I added the "rw" (see below)--but
by the time I read your solution I had found the Frankenlinux page on fstab:
www.frankenlinux.com/intor/fstab.html
and used the suggestion listed there:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto rw,noauto,users,nosuid,nodev,sync,noexec 0 0
I think the important entry is the "rw" in the Mount Options (field three)
list which means, of course, read/write.
The Frankenlinux site is a *very* well written, useful resource--I recommend
it. Not as much fun as this list, though ;-)
Again, Thanks to all of you-- Nick
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