* floppy always read-only in 2.5.12+
@ 2002-05-21 11:31 Rene Blokland
2002-05-21 11:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
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From: Rene Blokland @ 2002-05-21 11:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
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.
--
Groeten / Regards, Rene J. Blokland
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* Re: floppy always read-only in 2.5.12+
2002-05-21 11:31 floppy always read-only in 2.5.12+ Rene Blokland
@ 2002-05-21 11:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
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From: Mikael Pettersson @ 2002-05-21 11:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: reneb; +Cc: linux-kernel
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
<http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.5/patch-fix-floppy-2.5.16>
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
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