X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:44:18 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <575165029.20130222144418@mtu-net.ru> To: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Subject: Re: 1.7.7 on Windows 7: can't write to removable disk In-Reply-To: <5126A8A0.4060706@cygwin.com> References: <1361487311.99821.YahooMailNeo@web160704.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <5126A8A0.4060706@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Greetings, Larry Hall (Cygwin)! >> I am curious if this patch was included in the live build of cygwin. I use >> dd for archiving and making new copies of floppy disks from images, and I >> can no longer do that in Windows 7. I, too, get the error message: >> >> "dd: writing to /dev/fd0: Permission denied" > Cygwin 1.7.7 is very old and the thread you reference is over 2 years > old. The current version of Cygwin is 1.7.17. If you're not up-to-date, > try updating. If you are and you're having problems, please read and > follow the problem reporting guidelines found at the link below for > any follow-up to this list. The error itself is not specific to cygwin version, and a clue is expressed by the author: Win7. Unless you have disabled UAC, it will prevent direct access to devices, unless the program run as super-user. This also applies to removable media formatted as NTFS, in some circumstances. Stumbled upon this myself yesterday. Forgot to bring my flash disk, and had to use cased HDD containing a mirror of my tools "just in case". The HDD was formatted in NTFS, and I were unable to access many files, until I restarted my file manager as super-user. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 22.02.2013, <14:40> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple