Re: write protect floppy forever!?

["Markus Stausberg" <markus@infolytics.com>]

On 8 May 00, at 4:57, Kenneth Scharf wrote:

(...)
> then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it
(...)
> This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy
> was write protected the second command fails with
> "write only file system". 
(...)

Hi Ken,

there is some floppy controller hardware out there
which fails to inform the kernel when the floppy
was changed.
On the debian distro is a utility called "fdflush"
(in its own .deb i believe) which fakes the "fl has
changed" message to the kernel.
So 1. change floppies
     2. call fdflush

I had similar problems, this works fine for me.

regards, Markus


 
 
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