On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:56:45 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > Maybe the driver should detect the write protect?

Dec 18 14:10:46 idea /netbsd: fd0a: hard error writing fsbn 224 of 224-227
        (st0 40<abnrml> st1 2<write_protect> st2 0 cyl 6 head 0 sec 9)

"It does."  :-)

Actually, it just prints that bit out... you're problably right... it
should check for that and bail out...

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