I sort of have that problem. Mine can read fat formatted disks, but not
ext2. I tried to add that parameter to /etc/fstab, but it didn't work. If I
substitute auto, will that enable it to read both?
-s
On Friday 15 December 2000 14:31, you wrote:
> Try this and see if that doesn't bring it back:
>
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
>
> You could substitute auto for vfat.
>
> Barry :-)
>
> On Thu, 14 December 2000, "Donnie Green" wrote:
> > I just loaded up Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and the floppy drive will not mount.
> >
> > The error that I receive is:
> > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > /dev/fd0: Input/output error
> >
> > The entry in /etc/fstab for my floppy is:
> > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
> >
> > Can anyone help me?
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