Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:40:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/65843: poor handling of write protected floppy. Message-ID: <200404212340.i3LNeFhv028849@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/65843; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Andrew Grillet <andrew@grillet.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/65843: poor handling of write protected floppy. Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:38:37 +1000 This is a limitation of the hardware. There is no way to discover that a floppy is write-protected until you try to write to it. And no way to notice that a floppy has been inserted/removed. Recovering from failed disk writes is also known to be unpleasant, but is very hard to fix due to the kernel layering. It's been talked about for years but no-one has come up with a good solution or the time/inclination/money to do the work. Short answer: Don't do that.
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