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Date:      Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:37:52 +1100
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unmounting disabled with writeprotected floppy 
Message-ID:  <200210292337.KAA25179@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:41:26 %2B0100.
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> I think a write-protected floppy should _not_ be allowed to be
> mounted _writeable_ at all. It should either not be mounted at all
> or be mounted readonly implicitly.

This is a hardware limitation.  The only way to discover a floppy is 
write-protected is to try and write to it and get an error back.



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