I wanted to copy a floppy (as an image). So I inserted a floppy in /dev/fd0 and used dd if=/dev/fd0 of=./temp then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it with a blank and used dd if=./temp of=/dev/fd0 (while root of course :->)
This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy was write protected the second command fails with "write only file system". I couldn't again write to /dev/fd0 without rebooting. Loging out as root and loging in again as root won't help. There must be a way to tell /dev/fd0 to read the damn write protect switch again!!!! ===== Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or ..... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/