Cannot write to Floppy Drive, even as root

[sparky55]

Hi, I seem unable to write to my floppy drive anymore, even as root. When I logged in as root and tried to access the properties of the floppy drive I got the following:-
Owner: can view content
group: forbidden
others: forbidden

When I tried to change this I got the following error message:- 'Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices'

I used to be able to write to the floppy, so what happened? Can anyone help me?

I have enclosed below a copy of /etc/fstab

I am running Suse Linux 9.1 and Linux Kernal 2.6.5-7.95




/dev/hdb7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/F ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,rw,users,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

[stathisx]

did you use chmod command?login as root andt ype chmod 777 /dev/fd0..
it may work

[Pimp Daddy]

That protocol devices message appears with my external hard drive when I use the copy option sometimes. To get around it I just bring the device up in Konqueror and drag the file over to it. It seems to work fine that way.

[stathisx]

ok, you can use it that way!