Subject: Re: fd hard errors
To: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/02/2002 23:22:46
> mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> pc:~#
>
>
> And if you try to open /dev/fd0 read-write when  a write-protected
> floppy is in the drive, the open() call will fail with EROFS.
>
> Bye	Pavel



yes it is, and same with floppy removal

in very old "tech-help" documentation i used when programming in DOS (on
286) it's described. i can dig it