Why can't I rename my floppy drive?

[Jimmy Montague]

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 10:13 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 07/29/2008 04:59 AM, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > I installed a floppy drive. Nautilus showed the drive (named FLOPPY)
> > present in the system. To test the drive, I gave it a diskette named
> > QMOSAIC1. Then I right-clicked the icon and selected "mount". Ubuntu
> > read the diskette and changed the name of the drive to QMOSAIC1. Now I
> > can't change the name of the drive back to FLOPPY. Whenever I try,
> > Nautilus gives me an error: 
> > 
> > "Sorry, couldn't rename "QMOSAIC1" to "FLOPPY": Operation not supported
> > by backend."
> > 
> > What can I do about that?
> > 
> > I tried a terminal window: gksudo nautilus and all of that. The floppy
> > icon doesn't show up until I put a diskette in it and mount the drive.
> > When I then try to rename it, Nautilus says it can't rename because the
> > device is in use.
> > 
> > What can I do about that?
> > 
> > How do I make this machine do what I want it to do?
> > 
> > I never had problems like this in Windoze.
> > 
> > 
> 
> You must also 'unmount' the floppy. Put the floppy back in and
> right-click unmount.
> 
> 

Nonsense. If I gksudo or just plain sudo, when the Nautilus window
opens, the result is the same. If I try to rename the drive icon,
Nautilus tells me it can't rename because the device is busy. If I first
unmount the drive, the icon disappears so there's nothing then to
right-click on. The only way I can click on the drive is to mount the
drive and then I can't rename because the device is busy. If I unmount
the drive, the device disappears.