From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 11 18:43:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9003237B405 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:43:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.86.84]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:43:07 -0400 Received: by i8k.babbleon.org (Postfix, from userid 111) id 66CF2BB39; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:43:05 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: fcash@bigfoot.com Subject: Re: very old bug Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:43:04 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: stable@freebsd.org References: <20020411100223.A64698@freebsd.org> <20020411212841.F09C7BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> <200204112344.QAA06369@enterprise.sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <200204112344.QAA06369@enterprise.sd73.bc.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020412014305.66CF2BB39@i8k.babbleon.org> 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 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. -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) ME --> http://www.babbleon.org http://www.eff.org <-- GOOD GUYS --> http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message