Why can't I access my floppy disk?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Feb 22 04:42:38 GMT 2005


In the last episode (Feb 22), Anthony Atkielski said:
> Dan Nelson writes:
> > Is it write-protected?  Securelevel too high?  Check your console
> > or dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
> 
> No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3.  Does
> securelevel=3 prevent me from mounting floppies??

A quick look at the source says it shouldn't stop you, but there are a
lot of calls within vfs_domount that may return EPERM.  You may need to
add printfs to figure out which one is failing.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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