Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 14:40:01 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mark Spiegel <mark.spiegel@lmco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: floppy drive write protected Message-ID: <20000201144000.A24609@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200002012115.NAA25862@sgi523.lmms.lmco.com>; from mark.spiegel@lmco.com on Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 01:15:13PM -0800 References: <200002012115.NAA25862@sgi523.lmms.lmco.com>
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* Mark Spiegel <mark.spiegel@lmco.com> [000201 13:42] wrote: > > > 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 <write-protect> > 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, If NT also has a problem with it, then the drive is suspect, however... check your BIOS, for some reason I have the idea that you can mess with certain floppy settings in the bios that may cause it to behave this way. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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