Why can't I access my floppy disk?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Feb 22 03:49:37 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Feb 22), Anthony Atkielski said:
> I put a diskette (MS-DOS) into my floppy drive and try
> 
> mount -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount -o ro -t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /floppy
> 
> and various other variations, but all I get is "Operation not permitted"
> 
> fsck works okay.  I'm logged in as root.  What am I overlooking?

Is it write-protected?  Securelevel too high?  Check your console or
dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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