From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 13:16: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 297143EF5 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:16:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA06194 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:15:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) id <0FP900O01SEBMO@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:15:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgi523.lmms.lmco.com ([129.197.11.229]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-32 #38886) with ESMTP id <0FP900NGGSDO6C@lmco.com> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from spiegel@localhost) by sgi523.lmms.lmco.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA25862; Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:15:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:15:13 -0800 (PST) From: mark.spiegel@lmco.com (Mark Spiegel) Subject: floppy drive write protected To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <200002012115.NAA25862@sgi523.lmms.lmco.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am unable to write to my floppy drive. I can read from floppies, but my floppy drive seems to think the floppy disk is write protected, when it isn't. I double checked the floppy switch, and it IS NOT write protected. When I enter the commands, mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /floppy cp tarsrc.gz /floppy I get the error message: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn19 cp: /floppy/tarsrc.gz Input/Output Error I am dual booting the PC (FreeBSD and WNT4.0) and NT also says the floppy is write protected. With NT I can also read floppies, just no write. I disconnected the floppy drive, rebooted, reconnected the drive, rebooted and did not get any change. Do I definitely need to buy a new floppy drive? Or is it something else that maybe one of you has also experienced? Thanks in advance for any help, Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message