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From: crs@lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A: Drive?!?!?
Date: 28 Oct 1996 22:56:32 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Message-ID: <553dn0$72f@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <3268183E.5B5E@freenet.mb.ca> <3269269A.1D2@icanect.net> <54dhc5$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <54dhc5$3gs@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
= Utech <rautech@icanect.net> wrote:
=
= > ONLY root can use the floppy drive, for security reasons, by default.
=
= That's not completely right. Members of group `operator' will also
= get read/only access by default.
=
= > You can change the settings for the device, but only as root.
OK, I, too, am somewhat ignorant of this process under FreeBSD.
Am I correct that one would first format the diskette with
fdformat?
Should I then be able to mount it as described above?
I just tried that and here's what mount said:
PC% !43
sudo mount -rw /dev/fd0 /floppy
/dev/fd0 on /floppy: Incorrect super block.
PC%
Must I put a Unix file system on the diskette to be able to mount
it? My recollection is that Suns would mount diskettes with either
Unix file systems or DOS formatted ones.
What am I doing wrong?
--
Best,
Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
crs@swcp.com crs@hamlet.lanl.gov Life Member since 1965