From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 03:49:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C543216A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:49:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D3F43D41 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:49:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1M3nYeo024826 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:49:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:49:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050222034933.GB253@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1292549780.20050222044102@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1292549780.20050222044102@wanadoo.fr> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Subject: Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:49:37 -0000 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@allantgroup.com