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authorhpa <hpa>2004-12-10 05:48:23 +0000
committerhpa <hpa>2004-12-10 05:48:23 +0000
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Support making the disk readonly
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[*] MS-DOS only allows max 255 heads, and only allows 255 cylinders
on floppy disks.
-If you want to recompile it from sources, you will need to make sure that
-you have a fairly recent binutils installed. I have been using the
-binutils-2.11.90.0.8-9 RPM from RedHat.
+c) The disk is normally writable (although, of course, there is
+nothing backing it up, so it only lasts until reset.) If you want,
+you can mimic a write-protected disk by specifying the command line
+option:
+
+ ro Disk is readonly
Some interesting things to note: