I've got a problem that my floppy is recognized as read-only, even though the 'puter formatted it (DOS). This is in Slackware 9.1, with Gnome desktop. Kernal is (I think) 2.4.1, it's not the one that's just coming out
I know the floppy drive pysically works, 'cause it did under the previous OS setup I had on the 'puter - a dual-boot Win 2K/Suse 9.1. I went to Slack for faster speed, and have not been disappointed.
I've looked at /etc/fstab & /etc/mtab and it seems the floppy is listed correctly. I get an 'invalid parameters' message when I try to drag-n-drop onto the floppy desktop icon. I am 'root' on this 'puter - no other users, it's my learn-Linux computer...
And yes, the floppy tab is in the r-w position (grin).
In fstab, the line for the floppy reads:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
In mtab, the line for the floppy reads:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy umsdos rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
Can anyone help me with this? It would be VERY useful to be able to write
to floppy!
Also, I'd like to find a way to use the 'supermount' feature, where the floppy/CD is mounted on insertion, a la Mac.
If you would be ULTRA kind, and e-forward any replied to my email: jhecht@ix.netcom.com - I'm searching a lot of forums try to fix this bug.
TIA for your help!
