or perhaps it is the physical read-only tab on the disk?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> Really stupid reply, but, in fstab, what are the permissions for /dev/fd0???
> If it is ro or rw???
>> Try mountig the drive with rw specified.
>> Pathetic I know...
>> CW
>> --------------
> it tells me that /dev/fd0 is being mounted in read-only mode. I have check
> permissions on the /dev/fd0 file and the /mnt/floppy directory and they are
> fine, I have tried this as root, and the floppy disk is perfect. I thought
> that perhaps it was because the floppy was originally formatted on a windows
> PC, so I have tried different floppies formatted on a Linux PC but to no
> avail. This is starting to get a bit annoying so any help is appreciated ...
> ---------------
>>
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