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I have recently noticed that when I try to write to any floppy, Linux gives me any error message saying that it cannot write to the device. I can read floppies, though. I've tried flipping the read-only/write tab on the floppy. I used to be able to. I need to be able to write to floppies because I do graphics editing on THE GIMP for my website, but my Linux box doesn't have internet access.
Check your /etc/fstab. The floppy setting might be set to read only. Also, can you mount the floppy as a regular user or do you mount it as root? Compare you /etc/fstab floppy entry with mine:
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Can't write to floppies
