On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Irwan Wibowo wrote:

> I tried to mount a floppy disk, and I belong to wheel
> and operator groups, but I got this error:
>
> mount_msdos: /dev/fd0a on /mnt/floppy: operation not
> permitted.

$ ls -l /dev/fd0a
brw-r-----  1 root  operator  2, 0 Oct 16 16:40 /dev/fd0a

Make it writable by the group:
 chmod g+w /dev/fd0a

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/