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Subject: Re: talking to a DOS floppy, at least
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Jules Gilbert wrote:

> I can read a DOS floppy under my FB5.2.1, on a DELL 1150 Inspiron 
> system with an external floppy.
>
> But I can not write to a floppy. 


If you're saying that you can't write to a DOS floppy under FreeBSD, I 
believe that is normal behavior.  DOS and NTFS support in FreeBSD is 
read-only if I'm not mistaken (I'm sure someone will be kind enough to 
correct me if I am).
     -W