From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 29 15:38: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F6C37B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:38:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A41843E42 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:37:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02543 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:37:52 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25179; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:37:52 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <200210292337.KAA25179@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unmounting disabled with writeprotected floppy In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:41:26 +0100. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:37:52 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message