Permission Problem

SuSE 10.2. 2.6.18.8-0.7-bigsmp #1 SMP

I have been trying to get my floppy drive to allow user to read/write it.
Only way to mount is as root, then user cannot read/write. Also have a new
scandisk usb cruzer 8.2 mb drive that has the same issues.

I know the mount command is limited to root. I am a member of the group
floppy and disk.

My present permissions for the floppy are: (Deinstalled the usb drive after
trying a ~/mnt/directory. It showed up but I could not read or write it. I
put an entry in FSTAB and when root mounted it it showed in mtab).

ls -l /dev/fd0
brw-rw----+ 1 root disk
ls -l /media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

FSTAB entry:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync
0 0

Is there any actual document showing correct way to do this? I found several
on the web but they always fail at the point where they say to mount the
drive.

I am new at the file permission stuff. my 10.2 floppy setup was working
until I had a disk failure and on reinstall the kde update (3.5.8, before I
had 3.5.5 installed) b was applied.

Thanks in advance.

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Russ
Registered Linux user #441463
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