From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:30:56 -0700 (MST) From: Brad Midgley To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: floppy driver bug: write-protect In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: This message was stuck in a mail queue since november!! (it was my own sysadmin's fault :) so when I say the current pmac kernel I really mean the pmac kernel of November 15, 1998. argh, i just checked and this bug is present in vger-pre5. brad > > is this a known bug? > > on intel linux, if you try to mount a write-protected floppy disk > read-write, the mount succeeds but is demoted to read-only. > > the current pmac kernel will mount the disk read-write and will allow > "writes" to the disk. the writes even appear to succeed and the mounted > filesystem returns really strange results when you look at it (it's > caching the "writes" and everything seems normal until uncached data has > to be loaded from the disk!) > > is it known how to query the drive for the write-protect status? does this > problem affect any other removable media? > > brad > > [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]