[ale] fd0 perm problems

[Thomas S Jackson]

  Maybe it's just me, but it sounded like you were given the
  correct answer.  If the floppy was write protected when it
  was mounted, then it was mounted read-only.  In order to
  write to the floppy it needed to be unmounted and remounted
  as a read-writable media.  Any chance?

  Maybe not.


On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, MYERS wrote:

> I had posted a problem with my floppy device and write protected floppies.
> I guess I should have been more specific.  I'm not mounting the floppy, I'm
> tar'ing directly to it, as in:
> 
> tar -czvf /dev/hd0h1440 /home/foo
> 
> When I do this to a write protected disk, I get an error I expect.  I then
> pull the floppy out, correct the problem and I still get the write error.
> I can even put in a different floppy and I get the same error.  Not that
> this makes any difference between writing to a mounted floppy and just writing
> to the floppy...  Now, anybody seen this?  Again, the only resolution is to
> reboot.  Pretty drastic huh?
> 
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