I hope its not a silly question, but had you mounted each floppy (and don't forget to unmount it before ejecting it). You need to be root to mount the floppy, something like
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy (do some things) umount /mnt/floppy On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:53:28 +1300 Ken McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Konqueror, the icon for /mnt/floppy had a padlock on it, and every > property was greyed out. > > In a shell, as non-root I had "no access" and as root, trying chmod 777 > /mnt/floppy I got an "Input/Output error". > > Back in Konqueror the CDROM /mnt/cdrom had also acquired a padlock. -- "All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update." - theregister.co.uk
