floppy driver bug: write-protect

[Brad Midgley]

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
> 
> 


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