"Sameer R. Manek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -----Original Message----- >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Harald Arnesen >> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:58 AM >> "Brian T.Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > In fact, MS-DOS provide far superior support for floppies than Linux or >> > FreeBSD or any other Unix I've used. >> >> In what way? > > Perhaps in the way this thread has been discussing for the past 10 or so > posts? Namely the handling of error conditions, when dealing with a floppy > that has been write protected. > > In MS-DOS you weren't stuck in an endless loop of attempting to write to the > floppy.
I just tried to write to a write-protected floppy in Linux. No endless loop. -- Hilsen Harald. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
