Bug 11190

Summary:	/dev/fd0 becomes unwrittable after attempt to format.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tony Murray <tonymurray>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	lostlogic, mjc
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tony Murray 2002-11-25 04:44:28 UTC

Sometimes, it may be when I have a disk in that has the tab set to read-only
access, when I try to format, I will get the error "ioctl(FDFMTTRK):
Input/output error" when trying to format a floppy disk, subsequent attempts
give a device is read-only error, with no way to restore write access.

By the way, it even does this after I realized the tab was set to read-only and
changed it to read-write!

Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-11-27 13:53:34 UTC

Tried different kernel/fdd yet ?

Comment 2 Tony Murray 2002-12-13 04:07:24 UTC

Ignore this bug, I suspect it is just my crappy hardware. :(

Comment 3 Tony Murray 2005-01-24 10:44:19 UTC

Closing old bugs.