Re: [ECOS] floppy access in cygwin

["Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe at larwe dot com>]

> > $ dd conv=sync if=redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
> > dd: /dev/fd0: No such file or directory
> >
> > this command takes about 8 seconds to execute before error
> > message is printed. and the light of floppy drive is on for
> > a while. i have checked the floppy and media and they work
> > fine in windows.
>
>I know it seems obvious, but is the floppy write protected? Also you should
>probably try to do a low level format of it first from within Windows. If

Also make sure that there isn't an Explorer window open with A:\ and that 
there is no console session that has A:\ as its current directory, 
otherwise you can't get an exclusive lock on the drive.

Sometimes volumes seem to be owned by phantom processes in NT (2000 
especially), and can't be reformatted until you reboot.


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