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Faulty floppy drive

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jtgoh@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 15 11:40:20 1992

From: jtgoh@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 92 11:39:55 EDT


Machine in question : W20-575-56 : 18.70.0.75
Model : DecStation 5000/25
Location : Stratton Student Center
Problem : Unable to write to the 3.5" drive
Action : doswrite -a filename
Message : /dev/floppy: Restricted operation on file system
          can't open /dev/floppy for update.
Diagnostics : I tried other disks - same problems
	      Used the same disk on other machines - NO problem.

Please fix it ! Thanks

Email : jtgoh@athena.mit.edu

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