From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 07:47:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 07:47:09 -0400 Received: from kim.it.uu.se ([130.238.12.178]:7555 "EHLO kim.it.uu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 May 2002 07:47:08 -0400 From: Mikael Pettersson MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15594.13240.936204.105899@kim.it.uu.se> Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:47:04 +0200 To: reneb@cistron.nl Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: floppy always read-only in 2.5.12+ In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rene Blokland writes: > Hi, my desktop has a buildin floppy not an ide but and oldfasion one. > The mb is an ASUS p5a with an AMD k6 processor > When i try to do a dd to /dev/fd0 as root, it compaining about a Read-Only > filesystem. > Also lilo has this problem. is it a bug or did I miss something? > Thanks for your answer. This has been discussed here on LKML before. The preliminary patch at fixes the problem for me, but it may not be the "real" fix. If you intend to mount the floppy as a file system you may also have to patch fs/partitions/check.c:check_partition() similarly to how fs/block_dev.c was patched. I haven't tested that bit yet. /Mikael