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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:56:36 +0100
From:      Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?
Message-ID:  <268245829.20050228205636@wanadoo.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20050228133724.GA46668@ei.bzerk.org>
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Ruben de Groot writes:

>  1     Secure mode - the system immutable and system append-only flags may
>        not be turned off; disks for mounted file systems, /dev/mem,
>        /dev/kmem and /dev/io (if your platform has it) may not be opened
>        for writing; kernel modules (see kld(4)) may not be loaded or
>        unloaded.

Disks for mounted file systems ... but the floppy disk was not mounted.
Indeed, the problem was just that:  I couldn't mount it.

>  2     Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks may not be
>        opened for writing (except by mount(2)) whether mounted or not.
>        This level precludes tampering with file systems by unmounting
>        them, but also inhibits running newfs(8) while the system is multi-
>        user.

I wasn't trying to open the diskette for writing.  Even a read-only attempt
to mount the diskette failed.

If securelevel=3 prohibits mounting floppy disks, then the documentation
should say something like "floppy disks cannot be mounted at this
level."

-- 
Anthony




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