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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:01:48 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer 
Message-ID:  <94802.1035914508@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:47:24 %2B0100." <20021029184724.A1682@gicco.homeip.net> 

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In message <20021029184724.A1682@gicco.homeip.net>, Hanspeter Roth writes:
>  On Oct 29 at 18:34, Poul-Henning Kamp spoke:
>
>> That's a slightly more involved issue because you would have to
>> actually try to write to it before you find out that you can't.
>
>Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection before
>the mount is attempted?

As far as I know there isn't.  I'm not sure if it is a device driver
(morituri te salutem!) or hardware issue.

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