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From: Eckart Hofmann <bofh@muenster.de>
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Subject: Re: floppies
In-Reply-To: <01Mar27.093934est.115445@gateway.intersys.com> from "E. Jordan Bojar" at "Mar 27, 2001  9:37:50 am"
To: bojar@intersys.com (E. Jordan Bojar)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:39:11 +0200 (MEST)
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Sie, E. Jordan Bojar, haben geschrieben:

> I don't normally work with floppies, but I just did a fresh 4.2 install last
> night and when I try to format a floppy it tells me "Operation not allowed".
> The floppy is _not_ write protected, which was my first thought.  The
> command is "fdformat /dev/rfd0", right?  How was I stupid?
> 
Sounds like a securelevel > 0.

If this ist the problem, lower the securelevel.

Hth,
	Eckart

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