I'm repairing a computer for a nonbeliever and don't have it up on my lan yet. I d'loaded some soundblaster drivers and was trying to write the file to a floppy. When I tried to format the floppy on the Gentoo box I got a write protected error so I formatted on the wife's WinXP box and tried to mount it back here:
$ mount /mnt/floppy mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
relevant line in fstab looks good to me. /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,users,auto,rw 0 0
Could my floppy drive have died?
As I hardly remember from the time of XT PC's, one of FDD ribbon cable wires is called "write protect".
Since the cable is still the same (and FDD controller as well) it's possible your FDD cable is broken or FDD has broken sensor.
Replace the drive and/or cable.
noro
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