Floppy always mounts read-only.

_adam_ · 2006-09-23 14:19:29

I've had this problem for a while with arch but it never bothered me. But now I really want to get my hands dirty with OpenBSD and cant bring myself to waste a cd for a 4meg iso. So i have to use the boot floppy. However when i mount any floppy, it mounts it as read-only. I've checked the on/off tab. I know the drive and floppy are both good as I can mount it and write to it in a gentoo live-cd. The fstab line is:

/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0 0

any thoughts?

<bennym> · 2006-09-23 16:06:18

isn't there a "rw" missing? in front of user?
that mus be it

have a nice day

_adam_ · 2006-09-23 21:05:36

just tried that and still didnt work

Mr Green · 2006-09-23 21:23:47

/dev/fd0      /media/floppy      auto      rw,noauto,user,sync      0 0

what happens if you mount using pmount /dev/fd0 ?

_adam_ · 2006-09-23 23:09:14

I tried using auto instead of vfat and added the sync to the optline but still no dice. "pmount /dev/fd0" gives "mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only". "mount -v /dev/fd0" gives '/dev/fd0 on /mnt/fl type vfat (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=adam)'

iBertus · 2006-09-24 00:13:37

Two things:

1. Are you a member of the floppy group?
2. Is the little read-only switch on the disc itself in the correct position?

_adam_ · 2006-09-24 00:34:16

1. yes
2. yes

one thing though it is a REALLY old drive, but like i said i can use it fine from a gentoo live-cd. Maybe arch is loading the wrong driver? or are they all pretty much the same?

iBertus · 2006-09-24 03:53:52

With the same fstab entry I can write to a user-mounted floppy without issue. What interface does this drive use to connect to the mainboard?

Mr Green · 2006-09-24 09:43:52

You like not have disc write protected ... you know like on the floppy?

iBertus · 2006-09-24 23:30:50

Mr Green wrote:

You like not have disc write protected ... you know like on the floppy?

See my question #2 above...

_adam_ · 2006-09-25 06:28:09

iBertus wrote:

With the same fstab entry I can write to a user-mounted floppy without issue. What interface does this drive use to connect to the mainboard?

do you mean like the parallel ata cable?

Mr Green · 2006-09-25 07:01:39

grab a livecd if that works (as user!) then check modules loaded against Arch ...

If you can mount drive as root then its just a permissions thing .. udev maybe

I cannot be too much help as my box does not have a floppy drive

O the write protect thing I that missed that sorry ....

JGC · 2006-09-25 09:09:39

Sounds like a broken floppydrive that doesn't detect the write-protect tab on the diskette anymore. Never had this myself, but I've read many stories about diskettes that wouldn't be detected as HD/DD or as RW/RO correctly.

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Floppy always mounts read-only.

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