Re: access floppy rw to lock system

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From
Chad R. Larson <chad@DCFinc.com>
Date
13 Jan 2000 21:49:56
Subject
Re: access floppy rw to lock system
Message-ID
200001140549.WAA08193@freeway.dcfinc.com

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As I recall, Gregory Bond wrote:
>> 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.

But PC floppy hardware =does= have a "media changed" function. So,
same deal.

-crl
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