"Justin T. Gibbs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not necessarily sufficient since the media may be changed after
open on certain types of devices that don't have a media lock.
But don't you risk a panic if you do that?
Tony.
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THAMES
"Justin T. Gibbs" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is not necessarily sufficient since the media may be changed after
open on certain types of devices that don't have a media lock.
But don't you risk a panic if you do that?
By pulling the media out and flipping off the hardware write protect?
Even
From: Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 07:35:51 +1100 (EST)
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
Are there any reason device drivers do not check if thier devices are
writable or not when they are opened ? I think returning an error
value, like `od', is the
From: Bruce Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 06:24:20 +1100 (EST)
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm, can you demonstrate the problem? The write-protect check in the od
driver is one of the things that the da driver
Are there any reason device drivers do not check if thier devices are
writable or not when they are opened ? I think returning an error
value, like `od', is the easiest way to avoid this problem.
It is not necessarily sufficient since the media may be changed after
open on certain types of
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
Are there any reason device drivers do not check if thier devices are
writable or not when they are opened ? I think returning an error
value, like `od', is the easiest way to avoid this problem.
It is not necessarily sufficient since the media
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: od driver for -CURRENT
By the way, in Japanese users mailing list, some said that `da' does
not check whether a medium is writerable or not (write
protected). If you mount a write protected medium with -rw, it will
lead bad
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: od driver for -CURRENT
By the way, in Japanese users mailing list, some said that `da' does
not check whether a medium is writerable or not (write
protected). If you mou
From: Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:11:57 +0100
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:21:12PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I tried with 4.2-RELEASE (sorry not -current) and,
1. Boot up the 4.2-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel.
2. Connect MO drive with PC Card SCSI(ncv).
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 21:42:59 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 17:11:57 +0100
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:21:12PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I tried with 4.2-RELEASE (sorry not -current) and,
1. Boot up the
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:21:12PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I tried with 4.2-RELEASE (sorry not -current) and,
1. Boot up the 4.2-RELEASE with GENERIC kernel.
2. Connect MO drive with PC Card SCSI(ncv).
3. Insert PC Card without medium in the MO drive.
4. The pccardd
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:43:33PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:00:41 -0700
I think we already have the most important functionality from the od(4)
driver in the da and cd drivers. If there are any features that are
From: Bernd Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:30:30 +0100
Though I have not tried `da' lately, if you don't insert a medium in
the drive at the time of CAM rescan bus, `da' tries to get the
geometry by XPT_CALC_GEOMETRY then panics with divided by zero in most
SCSI
I've made an attempt at an update for -CURRENT of Shunsuke Akiyama's od
driver for magneto-optical disks, which I got from his archives at
ftp://daemon.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/OD/ . I have only tested it a
little, but I'm able to do "tar cf /dev/od0 ..." under 4-STABLE and untar
under
I was able to do:
# mount_msdos /dev/od0 /mnt
# newfs_msdos /dev/od0
# cp mozilla-win32-0.7.zip /mnt/
under FreeBSD -CURRENT, then unzip the file under Windows 95 OSR2 with no
problems. However, the patched sysinstall still crashes, and neither
disklabel nor newfs are
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:34:44AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
I've made an attempt at an update for -CURRENT of Shunsuke Akiyama's od
driver for magneto-optical disks, which I got from his archives at
ftp://daemon.jp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-jp/OD/ . I have only tested it a
little, but I'm
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 00:15:27 +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:34:44AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
I've made an attempt at an update for -CURRENT of Shunsuke Akiyama's od
driver for magneto-optical disks, which I got from his archives at
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 17:00:41 -0700
I think we already have the most important functionality from the od(4)
driver in the da and cd drivers. If there are any features that are
in the od(4) driver that should be in the da(4) or cd(4) drivers, but
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