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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org>
To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
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Subject: Re: very old bug
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On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> Come to think of it, perhaps the best fix for floppies is to simply disable 
> the mounting of floppy-based file systems, forcing you to use mtools, which 
> doesn't have this problem.

Don't forget that mtools are only for accessing MSDOS floppies.

If you use dd to write a new boot floppy and the disk is write protected,
you're still SOL, no?

Geoff


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