Re: diskette change problems

Lech Szychowski (lech.szychowski@pse.pl)
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 17:06:28 +0200

> I put a write-protected diskette into fd0
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0: readonly filesystem
> then removed dikette, switched the plastic nibble
> reinserted diskette
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0 : readonly filesystem

Are you sure your FDD correctly recognizes media changes? Is there
anything like "kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)"
noted in your logfiles?

-- 
	Leszek.


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