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 (anrdae...@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
