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Subject: Re: talking to a DOS floppy, at least
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no, i write to MS-DOS file system's all the time.  Sometimes on floppy, 
too. 

But now I am trying to write to a floppy mounted via the USB port, and I 
get a "busy" whenever I try to write to a floppy.

I do a:

mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt/flp

to get it mounted.

--jg



tenebrae wrote:

> 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
>
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