floppy drive won't mount any more

From: Dennis J. Tuchler (dennis.tuchler_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:17:36 GMT

I use 9.0 and blackbox.

My fstab shows that the floppy drive should be mounted as /media/floppy.
Up to last week, there was never a problem in mounting that drive.

Last week, I tried three diskettes and each mount command (which produced
a light at the floppy drive and a reading-the-floppy sound) was rejected by
a claim that I didn't write the file system. What do I do to fix this?

Thanks

dj tuchler

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