[Techtalk] new floppy drive. All I get is error messages...

[Andrew]

Hi ALL,
	"Just put in a floppy drive. All I get is error messages,"

	I have been looking and reading (Google) for days, I wrote this note over 
that time it may be a little incoherent, please read carefully, I've tried 
several things, all listed below, not necessarily in order presented. 
	I HOPE someone will see something I have not done. At this point I am 
guessing it is not being "seen" by the kernel or something is not linked.  I 
just don't know what else to try.
	This is a machine I put together in August, and my first hands on Linux 
experience.  Coming from a Mac back round this PC, Linux stuff is a really 
huge, learning experience. I could easily have over looked something basic.

        Just put in a floppy drive. All I get is error messages, about read 
only or using the GUI, clicking on the desktop floppy icon, I was getting 
permission denied, Now I get denied when using any of the GUI formating tools
	I got this message as root using GUI and as SU  in a terminal
	I would like to enable full floppy use for one at least one user, any user 
even root would be nice.(-: haha 
	Did: cmod in MidComdr to every fdo fe and floppy file I could find in /etc 
and /dev.
	Did: ls -l /dev/fd0  (it found) "date" and floppy/0
	Did: cat /var/log/kernel/info | grep floppy  (no reply or nothing found)
	IS THIS the problem???? 	

	The only change after cmod is now clicking on the floppy icon opens Konqeror 
with an empty window which is I think a good thing as the floppy is blank. 

	BELOW is stuff I tried *before* doing cmod on every floppy file I could find 
in /etc and /dev.................... 

Type Command in Cli "# /dev/fd0u1440 Read-only file system while setting up 
superblock"  Error message.
	I tried GUI first then CLI, looked at several fixes in the archives, In /dev 
there is a "fd"directory with files 1-plain text ,2-plain text,3-socket , 
0-character device. Also in /dev is a directory "floppy" with "+0u" "360 to 
1920"
    One suggestion from the archives I have not done...put into: /etcfstab: 
"/dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy  ext2  noauto,user,exec 0 0"  The /etc/fstab looks to 
be good as it was except, changed suid to nosuid and vfat to ext2.
I am concerned the existing lines in /etc/fstab that includes "supermount" 
and "user"  will be misconfigured or screwed-up. Should I go ahead and add 
the command?

Tried this: 
[root at Linux1 drew]# ls -l /dev/fd/
total 0
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 0 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 1 -> /dev/pts/1
lrwx------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 2 -> /dev/pts/1
lr-x------    1 root     root           64 Jan  4 00:05 3 -> /proc/2584/fd/
Then tried:
[root at Linux1 drew]# cat /proc/2584/fd/
cat: /proc/2584/fd/: No such file or directory
cat

    Mdrk 8.2

        Andrew