flash drive mount and write permission

When I want to mount the floppy drivedev-fd0 on my ancient (RH 7.1) system, I just execute mountmnt-floppy and it does it, even if I do so without being logged in as root. Inetc-fstab, the entry for the floppy drive is:

dev-fd0 mnt-floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

I can also write to the floppy without being root. For some reason, when I want to mount the flash drive, I have to be root and I also have to be root to write to the flash drive. I mount it with mountmnt-flash and the corresponding entry inetc-fstab is:

dev-sda1 mnt-flash auto noauto,owner 0 0

They are essentially identical. Also, the directoriesmnt-flash andmnt-floppy have identical permissions set.

I don't want to have to be root to run programs that write to the flash drive, so I have to solve this problem of giving an ordinary user permission to mount (at console) the flash drive and to write to it. If you know how to do this, please let me know. -- Ignorantly, * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston.