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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 22:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Geoffrey C. Speicher" <geoff@speicher.org>
To:        "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        fcash@bigfoot.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: very old bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204112234500.40837-100000@speicher.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020412014305.66CF2BB39@i8k.babbleon.org>

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On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> 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.

Don't forget that mtools are only for accessing MSDOS floppies.

If you use dd to write a new boot floppy and the disk is write protected,
you're still SOL, no?

Geoff


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