From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 12 13:16:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail46.fg.online.no (mail46-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02CC37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from basilikum.skogtun.org (ti100710a080-0170.bb.online.no [80.212.32.170]) by mail46.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA16222; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:15:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by basilikum.skogtun.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9EC068558; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:15:11 +0200 (CEST) To: "Sameer R. Manek" Cc: Subject: Re: very old bug References: From: Harald Arnesen Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:15:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: ("Sameer R. Manek"'s message of "Fri, 12 Apr 2002 03:33:54 -0700") Message-ID: <87vgawy8q8.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) Emacs/21.2 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "Sameer R. Manek" 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" 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