[ale] fd0 write protected problem

Eric eric at uxeric.compgen.com
Thu Apr 4 08:06:27 EST 1996


I take it you unmounted the disk before you took it out of the drive to
change the write protect and then re-mounted it after your put the disk
back in?  Or are you using the 'mtools' library?

-Eric

Unix Guru Dude writes:
 > Hey folks, I sometimes make the stupid mistake of trying to write to a
 > write protected floppy.  Problem is, once I correct this oversight, I still
 > can't write to the disk.  In fact, I am unable to write to any floppy in this
 > drive without rebooting.  The permissions are okay.  Anyone else run into
 > this problem?
 > 
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 > Until later:
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 > 	http://www.ticllc.net/~geof  or http://denali.is.net/~geof
 > 
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