write protect floppy forever!?

2000-05-08 Thread Kenneth Scharf
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

Re: write protect floppy forever!?

2000-05-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Kenneth Scharf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 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

Re: write protect floppy forever!?

2000-05-08 Thread John Pearson
On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 04:57:01AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote 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

Re: write protect floppy forever!?

2000-05-08 Thread Markus Stausberg
On 8 May 00, at 4:57, Kenneth Scharf wrote: (...) then pop'ed the source diskette out and replaced it (...) This works fine, but if in the first move the floppy was write protected the second command fails with write only file system. (...) Hi Ken, there is some floppy controller hardware