Re: Raw devices work in latest snapshot? Need help prior to 1.3.4 release

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:21:40AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>dd if=disk1.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
>>>dd: opening '/dev/fd0': Permission denied.
>>>
>>>This was as a normal user.  I then tried to write to the floppy in raw 
>>>mode as Administrator. Also permission denied.
>>>
>>>This looks like a regression to me.  After replacing the dll with the 
>>>one from 1.3.3-2, I could write to the floppy in raw mode.
>>>
>>>So, with the 20011001 snapshot, read in raw mode from floppy works, 
>>>write does not.
>>
>>Thanks for testing this.
>>
>>Could you send an strace of this behavior?
>
>Nevermind, Chuck.  I've duplicated the behavior.

I think I've fixed this.  It's in the most recent snapshot.

Could you verify this, Chuck?

Can anyone else verify that tapes are working ok?  I don't have a tape
drive attached to my windows system so I can't test this.

cgf

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