Re: [Info-mtools] Trouble accessing 2M formatted disks

[Ignatios Souvatzis]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:59:29PM +0200, Yuri van Oers wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> These last few days I've been trying to access some old floppy disks
> I found, formatted with 2M. I was pleased to read that 2M is
> supported under Linux, but my efforts have been unsuccessful so far.
> 
> My understanding is that 2M support should be transparant. However, I get:
> 
> $ mdir
> Can't set disk parameters for A: Operation not permitted
> Cannot initialize 'A:'

Not knowing the details of Linux wrt. this question, I have two questions:

a) can you run mdir as root on this disk?
b) can you read the disk with dd as root?

Regards,
        -is