From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 27 7: 1:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from intersys.com (gateway.intersys.com [198.133.74.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E621137B71A for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 07:01:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bojar@intersys.com) Received: by gateway.intersys.com id <115506>; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:05:32 -0500 Message-Id: <01Mar27.100532est.115506@gateway.intersys.com> From: "E. Jordan Bojar" To: "Eckart Hofmann" Cc: References: <01Mar27.095039est.115436@gateway.intersys.com> Subject: Re: floppies Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:03:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So does the kernel security level prevent writing to disk/tape, or just formatting it? Which manpage should I be reading? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eckart Hofmann" To: "E. Jordan Bojar" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 9:39 AM Subject: Re: floppies > Sie, E. Jordan Bojar, haben geschrieben: > > > I don't normally work with floppies, but I just did a fresh 4.2 install last > > night and when I try to format a floppy it tells me "Operation not allowed". > > The floppy is _not_ write protected, which was my first thought. The > > command is "fdformat /dev/rfd0", right? How was I stupid? > > > Sounds like a securelevel > 0. > > If this ist the problem, lower the securelevel. > > Hth, > Eckart > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message