Re: mount / umount

From: Fabrizio Parrella <fabrizio_at_nldesign.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:44:03 -0500
mm... ok... could be some problems on my floppy unit, I'll check it better.

could not be better at this point, print an error more clear for end users?
and what about the problem mounting the floppy for an user and not the root?

vfs.usermount = 1

fabry

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 12:30 pm, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:19:42 -0500, Fabrizio Parrella 
<fabrizio_at_nldesign.com> said:
> > the floppy is not write-protected, and anyway I didn't try to write
> > anything on it!!
>
> Mounting anything read-write is equivalent to ``try[ing] to write''.
>
> >> > umount: unmount of /mnt/floppy failed: Resourde temporary  unavailable
> >> > # fd0: hard error cmd=write fsbn 19 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1
> >> > 2<write_protect> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 1 sec 2
> >> > (this last line repeat every few seconds)
>
> Your log message is quite clear: the drive believes that the floppy is
> write-protected, whether or not you do is immaterial.
>
> -GAWollman
Received on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 09:45:30 UTC

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