Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:43:04 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: fcash@bigfoot.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: very old bug Message-ID: <20020412014305.66CF2BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200204112344.QAA06369@enterprise.sd73.bc.ca> References: <20020411100223.A64698@freebsd.org> <20020411212841.F09C7BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> <200204112344.QAA06369@enterprise.sd73.bc.ca>
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On Thursday 11 April 2002 07:44 pm, Freddie Cash wrote:
| On April 11, 2002 02:28 pm, you wrote:
| > Simple solution: remove the floppy drive from your computer and
| > replace it with a CD-ROM burner. Floppies don't hold enough data to
| > be of much use these days anyway, or at least so I find. At any
| > rate, this fix works for me.
| >
| > I mean, I guess it seems disturbing that this wasn't somehow fixed
| > five years ago, but somewhat bizarre to tackle a floppy drive
| > problem, of all things, in 2002.
|
| Are there any errors generated when you mount a CD-ROM as read/write
| and try to write something to it?? Just curious, as that would be the
| same situation as is occuring with the floppy.
You can't do that; to write to a CD-ROM you must use special-purpose software.
Come to think of it, perhaps the best fix for floppies is to simply disable
the mounting of floppy-based file systems, forcing you to use mtools, which
doesn't have this problem.
This is pretty much the equivalent situation to a CD-RW.
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