Floppy problems

[Erik Bågfors]

First of all, if your floppy is a "FAT" floppy, you cannot set
permissions on files in it since FAT doesn't support permissions.

Do you have a line with /media/floppy in /etc/fstab? If so, can you
show us that?

/Erik - who hasn't used floppys in years...


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:48:15 +0930, squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am having problems accessing my floppy drive.
> It's not possible to write to it, I can see files on a floppy disk
> but if I right click a file , the file disappears.
> Can end up with what appears to be an empty floppy, but
> If I close the folder in Nautilus and re- open it the file is back, but
> cannot open it(file), or copy it. The files are all png's. Double
> clicking files do nothing.
> A blank floppy behaves the same, can't write to it. I am doing some
> knoppix screen shots on an old machine, and and taking them back and
> forth to
> this machine.
> 
> I am confused about there being 2  floppy's,  floppy-> floppy0
> then another line with floppy0, can't set the permissions on the second
> line.
> If I try to chmod floppy0 as root, it only changes the one in the
> floppy->floppy0 line
> 
> squareyes at squareyes:/media $ ls
> cdrom  cdrom0  cdrom1  floppy  floppy0
> squareyes at squareyes:/media $ ls -l
> total 15
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 2005-02-15 15:08 cdrom -> cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2005-02-15 15:08 cdrom0
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 2005-02-15 15:08 cdrom1
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 2005-02-15 15:08 floppy ->
> floppy0
> drwxr--r--    2 root     root         7168 1970-01-01 09:30 floppy0
> squareyes at squareyes:/media $
> 
> root at squareyes:/media # cd floppy0/
> root at squareyes:/media/floppy0 # ls
> cdburn.png  info.png  read1.png  read.png
> root at squareyes:/media/floppy0 # cd /media
> root at squareyes:/media # cd floppy/
> root at squareyes:/media/floppy # ls
> cdburn.png  info.png  read1.png  read.png
> root at squareyes:/media/floppy #
> 
> All files appear in both floppy and floppy0
> 
> chown results in:
> root at squareyes:/media # chown -R squareyes floppy0
> chown: changing ownership of `floppy0': Operation not permitted
> chown: changing ownership of `floppy0/info.png': Operation not permitted
> chown: changing ownership of `floppy0/read.png': Operation not permitted
> chown: changing ownership of `floppy0/read1.png': Operation not permitted
> chown: changing ownership of `floppy0/cdburn.png': Operation not permitted
> root at squareyes:/media #
> 
>  From command line I managed to copy above files from floppy to Desktop,
> so files do exist on the floppy.
> A png made with the Gimp, tried to save to floppy, gives "Could not open
> 'media/floppy0/xyz.png
> for writing:permision denied" Dragging and dropping same result "no
> permission"
> Am a novice at command line, trial and error aren't giving me the
> desired results,
> could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong.
> Many thanks in advance
> Take Care
> Winton
> 
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