On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 09:49 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think the floppy in this machine is defective. The information on bsd > wasn't useful in fact, as root I was prevented from changing permissions > on the /dev/fd0 device. Looks like the FAT is corrupt. If the data is important to you, try gddrescue, then attempt to loop mount the image. If that fails, I think you will have lost your data, & will just have to try re formatting the disk.