tif@cpe.UUCP (11/04/88)
Written 7:30 pm Nov 1, 1988 by csun.UUCP!cacsc222%mx in cpe:comp.unix.xenix >A friend is READS 360K floppys in his 1.2M drive, and they become useless >in a 360K drive (must be reformatted). I hope it is painfully obvious that if we are talking about (for instance) mount disks that reading a file causes a write to the disk (unless mounted as read-only). I would stifle my excitement until testing it with a write-protect on the floppy to make sure that no WRITE is being done. Paul Chamberlain Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp. bellcore!motown!sys1!cpe!tif
skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) (11/04/88)
Are you reading the floppy under Dos or Xenix? If you simply "dir" a diskette under DOS, it shouldn't touch it at all. If you're using the Xenix "mount" command, however, I believe xenix writes stuff to the floppy. You can test this out by write-protecting your disk--I don't think you'll be able to mount it. In any case, if you've got a write protect tab on your disk, nothing should be able to happen to it. If something does anyway, that's an evil drive. Rich Skrenta
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) (11/05/88)
In article <3700007@eecs.nwu.edu>, skrenta@eecs.nwu.edu (Richard Skrenta) writes: > Are you reading the floppy under Dos or Xenix? If you simply "dir" > a diskette under DOS, it shouldn't touch it at all. If you're using > the Xenix "mount" command, however, I believe xenix writes stuff to the > floppy. You can test this out by write-protecting your disk--I don't > think you'll be able to mount it. In any case, if you've got a write ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The header says it all. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.