permissions on flopy in your latest kernel?

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On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> I'm using fdutils-5.5 and dd to do this.

not sure i am following you, but id you need to write images, all you
need is 'dd';

	dd of=/dev/fd0 if=fname.image

this should dump what ever image you have to floppy with no other progs
needed.

> But once booted to 2.6.24.7-92, I now get the first error ever out of 
> setfdprm:
> 
> root at coyote coco3_6309]# setfdprm /dev/fd0 COCO7203.5
> /dev/fd0: Permission denied
> [root at coyote coco3_6309]#

as root and fd0 owned by root, you have problems.

why are you trying to set parameters for fd0?

> So what the heck is going on?

something in wood pile.


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