Al salaam a'alaykum Roy

12 Dec 03 12:06, Roy J. Tellason wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH:

 CA>> Windows had some problems with the write-back cache for some years
 CA>> but I _think_ that was addressed in W98 or W98SE. The
 CA>> problem now is the ID Windows writes to a floppy even if you only
 CA>> do a directory read on it. It can trash special purpose floppies by
 CA>> writing to them at that location. 

 RJT> What versions are you referring to here?  Are you saying that it'd 
 RJT> have a problem with reading a floppy if I happened to write-protect 
 RJT> it?  Jeez...

No problem at reading it all. 

HOWEVER if the diskette is writeable, and it doesn't contain a unique ID
serial number, Win9X will write one.

The problem Charles refers to is with the old "setup disks" for
old IBM type machines (which had no BIOS setup program in their ROMs). Of
course, those sorts of disk would always be write protected - wouldn't
they?

Regards,
David

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