Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 16:05:01 +1100 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: Agent Drek <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com> Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com>, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>, Colin <cwass99@home.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: access floppy rw to lock system Message-ID: <200001140505.QAA07620@lightning.itga.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 13 Jan 2000 23:26:51 -0500.
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> |Exactly. If it's read-only media, it should fail when being mounted > |read-write, or default to ro. Even this is not enough. PC floppy hardware doesn't have a "lock media" function, so you can get the same panic by changing a floppy for a write-protected one while it is mounted. I suspect that this hardware-induced inability to usefully cover all the bases, along with some more fundamental structural changes that are happening in -CURRENT, are why this hasn't been solved more gracefully for -STABLE yet. Until then: "Don't do that!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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