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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:03:41 -0500
From:      "E. Jordan Bojar" <bojar@intersys.com>
To:        "Eckart Hofmann" <bofh@muenster.de>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: floppies
Message-ID:  <01Mar27.100532est.115506@gateway.intersys.com>
References:  <01Mar27.095039est.115436@gateway.intersys.com>

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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" <bofh@muenster.de>
To: "E. Jordan Bojar" <bojar@intersys.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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
>
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