cant use floppy

[charles f. zeitler]

--- François Patte
<francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:

> charles f. zeitler a écrit :
> > trying to mount, mount claims
> > the device (dev/fd0) is write-protected,
> > and cant even read the super block.
> > 
> > trying to format, mkfs is unable to
> > open /dev/fd0.
> > 
> > any ideas?
> 
> Your floppy has its write protection on?
> 
> -- 
> François Patte
> UFR de mathématiques et informatique
> Université René Descartes
> http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte

i tried it w/ the slide in both positions.
apparently, its the _drive_ that's write
protected.

charles f zeitler

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