mount / umount

Fabrizio Parrella fabrizio at nldesign.com
Tue Jan 6 10:45:30 PST 2004


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



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