On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 14:40, Nick Baker wrote: > anyone had the experience of not being able to write to fd0? > It reads fine, but won't write, although the disk is not write protected, > permissions are correct, and device is mounted. > > Can't cp from console because > "Cannot create regular file `/mnt/floppy/fielname' : Read only file > system" > > Can't drag and drop in kde because > "Could not write to /mnt/floppy/filename" > > fstab entry is > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user.iocharset=iso8859-1.sync.exec.codepage=850.noauto 00 > > Any ideas?? > 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!
Regards John...
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