Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/04/13/20:33:31
The form you're using basically refers to the floppy as a filesystem. You need a raw device. Use //./a: or, better and easier to remember, do a 'mount -b //./a: /dev/fd0'
and then use the /dev/fd0 with dd.
This subject has been discussed numerous times in the mailing list. There may be more/additional useful info there.
Jim Harris wrote:
>
> I am using Cygwin on a Windows 2000 machine - I am not logged in as
> Administrator, but I am a local administrator on this machine (I don't think
> permissions are the culprit here, but I'm including this just in case). I
> am trying to write an image to a floppy diskette using:
>
> dd if=boot.img of=//a
>
> "//a" is the only way I see any activity in the floppy drive ("a:" doesn't
> work) - I hear some spinning, but then I get the following message:
>
> dd: //a: Permission denied
>
> If I try reading a floppy image using:
>
> dd if=//a of=foo.img
>
> I get the following message:
>
> dd: //a: Invalid argument
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> Can 'dd' be used to read/write images from/to a floppy? It seems like '//a'
> refers to the root directory of the floppy, rather than the device itself
> (i.e. /dev/fd0 in Linux). Is there a syntax I can use to write an image to
> a floppy?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Harris
>
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