Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 11:55:44 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sxt2.space.lockheed.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Fixit Floppy Broken? Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.960330112146.22875D-100000@sxt2.space.lockheed.com> In-Reply-To: <199603300804.JAA03375@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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> I wrote: > > > I complained earlier about 'ls' not working on the floppy drive...but I > Joerg responded: > I've read it, but your description is too vague. I cannot reproduce > the problem (it seems like some FS-related vnode locking, i don't > think this is particularly dependant on happening on the floppy drive > itself), and seriously, about nobody really uses file systems on > floppies... Well...I usually don't either. A colleage had blown away his libc.so.3.0, and needed a new copy so I figured this would be simple. I've figured out the problem, though. This should have occured to me but I'm an idiot. I had set the 'write-protect' tab, then mounted the drive read-write. FreeBSD didn't like that at all. So, as I see it, there are two ways to look at this: (1) I deserved it, or... (2) Maybe the mount routine should complain and die if it tried to mount the floppy read-write when the floppy is write-protected. Regards, Brian
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