Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:15:11 +0200 From: Harald Arnesen <gurre@start.no> To: "Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: very old bug Message-ID: <87vgawy8q8.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> In-Reply-To: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENAEDHEFAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> ("Sameer R. Manek"'s message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:54 -0700") References: <LMEMIKHGPPEEMMMMGIENAEDHEFAA.manek@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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"Sameer R. Manek" <manek@ecst.csuchico.edu> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Harald Arnesen >> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:58 AM >> "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> writes: >> >> > In fact, MS-DOS provide far superior support for floppies than Linux or >> > FreeBSD or any other Unix I've used. >> >> In what way? > > Perhaps in the way this thread has been discussing for the past 10 or so > posts? Namely the handling of error conditions, when dealing with a floppy > that has been write protected. > > In MS-DOS you weren't stuck in an endless loop of attempting to write to the > floppy. I just tried to write to a write-protected floppy in Linux. No endless loop. -- Hilsen Harald. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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