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access differences between floppy and partition

How come if I mount my floppy as root, only root user can access it. When I mount my slack-root-partion(from gentoo) as root, regular user and root can read it. Why are the treated differently? They(mnt/floppy and /mnt/slack) have the same options. I listed my fstab for reference.

Code:

/dev/hda3              /boot          ext3    noauto,noatime

/dev/hda2              /mnt/ntfs      ntfs    umask=000,noauto

/dev/hda5              /              ext3    noatime

/dev/hda6              /mnt/slack      ext3    noauto,user

/dev/hda7              none            swap    sw

/dev/hda8              /mnt/vfat      vfat    umask=000,noauto

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy    auto    noauto,user

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 noauto,ro

Probably because the floppy has a dos format on it so it automatically makes it root only (unless you add the users option in fstab) where as your slackware partition is a linux partition with full permissions and whatnot set so it assumes it will just follow the permissions on the files.

Thanks. That seems like a reasonable explanation:)