>"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 prot
"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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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', i
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
>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 dev
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
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
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 protecte
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 th
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 SCS
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 automat
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
> > SCS
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
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
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
> > ftp://daemon.jp.freeb
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
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 w
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 Linux
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