report cards read-only on floppy

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Chris Aitken wrote:

> Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>   The only way to control what goes on the floppy in this situation is
>> to fiddle with the ownership and rwx permissions of /dev/fd0.
>>
>> 
>> 
> I did the following commands (trying to open a file from the floppy between 
> each command):
>
> [chris at p733 chris]$ mount /mnt/floppy
> [chris at p733 chris]$ chmod 777 /dev/fd0
> [chris at p733 chris]$ su
> Password:
> [root at p733 chris]# chmod 777 /dev/fd0
> [root at p733 chris]# chmod -R 777 /dev/fd0
> [root at p733 chris]#
>
> ....still the files only open read-only.

    Why are you chmoding the device instead of the file system?

chmod -R 777 /mnt/floppy

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