Re: [ECOS] floppy access in cygwin

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

A Roturier wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 
> this question was posted and asnwered awhile back. but i can't
> seems to have it resolved still.
> 
> i try to copy the pre-built image of redboot for pc platform
> onto floppy disc in order to boot from drive a:.
> 
> in cygwin,
> 
> $ mount
> C:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type user (textmode)
> C:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type user (textmode)
> c:\cygwin\tmp on /tmp type user (binmode)
> C:\cygwin on / type user (textmode)
> \\.\a: on /dev/fd0 type user (binmode)
> c: on /c type user (textmode)
> 
> so floppy drive is mounted correctly.
> 
> $ 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.
> 
> any idea? thanks for help.

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
this works let me know and I'll update the docs. If it doesn't, the next
port of call is probably the cygwin@cygwin.com list.

Jifl
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