Why can't I rename my floppy drive?

[NoOp]

On 07/29/2008 04:59 AM, Jimmy Montague wrote:
> I installed a floppy drive. Nautilus showed the drive (named FLOPPY)
> present in the system. To test the drive, I gave it a diskette named
> QMOSAIC1. Then I right-clicked the icon and selected "mount". Ubuntu
> read the diskette and changed the name of the drive to QMOSAIC1. Now I
> can't change the name of the drive back to FLOPPY. Whenever I try,
> Nautilus gives me an error: 
> 
> "Sorry, couldn't rename "QMOSAIC1" to "FLOPPY": Operation not supported
> by backend."
> 
> What can I do about that?
> 
> I tried a terminal window: gksudo nautilus and all of that. The floppy
> icon doesn't show up until I put a diskette in it and mount the drive.
> When I then try to rename it, Nautilus says it can't rename because the
> device is in use.
> 
> What can I do about that?
> 
> How do I make this machine do what I want it to do?
> 
> I never had problems like this in Windoze.
> 
> 

You must also 'unmount' the floppy. Put the floppy back in and
right-click unmount.