[expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other OSs... I dug some more and found a workaround which

Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those answering; but the OPs did not believe that since their floppy works under other

Re: [expert] read-only floppy workaround

2003-11-17 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:12:03 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 Nov 2003 7:00 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: Just had a problem where I couldn't write to a floppy -- tried a number of things without luck, and google threads I read indicated hardware problems from those