Thus spake Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection before > >the mount is attempted? > > As far as I know there isn't. I'm not sure if it is a device driver > (morituri te salutem!) or hardware issue.
I believe most floppy drives can be queried for both their write-protect status and whether the inserted disk has been changed. If someone cared enough, these bits could be used to protect users from themselves. IMO, the retry-forever bug is the real problem, but I'm a bit skeptical that it's easy to solve safely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
