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+Physical USB thumbdrive treated as read-only
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+So I have installed FreeDOS on my USB thumbdrive, by using Rufus. Everything goes as expected so far. That's good.
+
+When I run QEMU with this command line:
+qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1
+
+it of course is read-only, just like the resulting console message says:
+WARNING: Image format was not specified for '\\.\PhysicalDrive1' and probing guessed raw.
+         Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
+         Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
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+So what I then did, was I ran QEMU with this command line:
+qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1,format=raw
+
+As expected, the above mentioned console message no longer appears.
+However, beyond that, QEMU doesn't behave as it should regarding read-only status. When I try any operation that involves writing to the drive, it becomes quite clear that the drive is still read-only. Any writing operations to the drive result in FreeDOS giving me the error message:
+Error writing to drive C: DOS area: sector not found.
+
+The above situation is clearly a bug. QEMU should not be treating it as read-only once I specify format=raw.
+
+Note that drive C is how the guest OS refers to the USB thumbdrive (it's drive E in my host OS, and drive C in my host OS is the actual system drive).
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+And yes, it is a QEMU bug. It's not a FreeDOS bug I tested it with this command line, so that all changes would be written to a temporary snapshot file:
+qemu-system-x86_64.exe -drive file=\\.\PhysicalDrive1,format=raw,snapshot
+That last drive option "snapshot" tells QEMU to create a temporary snapshot file, and to write all changes to that. When I do that, all write operations are successful. So it seems that there is a bug in QEMU where it keeps read-only mode in place for a physical drive, even when format=raw is specified. Please fix this bug. Thanks in advance.
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+Here's my current setup.
+Host OS: Windows 10 (64bit)
+Guest OS: FreeDOS
+QEMU version: 4.1.0
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