[Gllug] Un-supported writing to floppy

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:29:37PM +0100, Gatekeeper wrote:
> Hello All.
> I am using SuSE Linux on a Dell Inspiron 4000 and have just upgraded to 
> ver 9.2.  It may well be idiot finger trouble :-) but I am unable to 
> find any help in 2 Linux manuals (3 counting the suse manual) and 1 Unix 
> manual to change 'permissions' (?) either as root , group or user to 
> allow me to write to my floppy drive particularly to back up vital data 
> from my word processor :-(  Can anyone please help?

Are you able to mount the drive but not write to it, or can you not
mount it?

If you can't even mount it as root, then there are two likely
explanations:

	1.  You haven't loaded the modules necessary to access the
	floppy.
	2.  Your floppy drive is broken.

What does 'cat /proc/filesystems' tell you?  If your floppy disk is DOS
formatted, you need to  see "msdos" or "vfat" listed there.  If it
isn't, try doing 'modprobe vfat'.

What does /etc/fstab look like, btw?

-- 
Bruce

It is impolite to tell a man who is carrying you on his shoulders that
his head smells.
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