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Re: potato - can't save to floppy, no matter what I try



on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:19:09PM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone (hearthstone11@yahoo.com) wrote:
>    Happens now and then - cannot write to floppy. Then
> I try linuxconf (both - in X, in console mode), toggle
> the "read only" (in "File Systems") - nothing happens.
> Then I go: "chmod 777 /dev/fd0 - nothing happens. All
> the above as "root". This happens ever so often,
> sometimes I just try to fix it with "linuxconf" and it
> works, sometimes. I need to be able to write to
> floppy!
>   Thanx - Hearthstone.

Your /etc/fstab floppy line is what?  Post output of following.

    $ grep fd0 /etc/fstab
    $ mount | grep fd0

Cheers.

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