chown for the floppy group

[Mark Panzer <mark.panzer@excel.net>]

I noticed when I'm logged in as a normal user (not root) I cannot write
to the floppy drive.  I checked out the permissions, I'm in the floppy
group but /floppy belongs to root and is of the group root.  While I was
root user I tried to 

chown .floppy /floppy 

but it says, root is not a member of the group floppy.

thanks for your help,

Mark Panzer