Re: Why can't I access my floppy disk?
From: Anthony Atkielski (atkielski.anthony_at_wanadoo.fr)
Date: 02/28/05
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:56:36 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Ruben de Groot writes:
> 1 Secure mode - the system immutable and system append-only flags may
> not be turned off; disks for mounted file systems, /dev/mem,
> /dev/kmem and /dev/io (if your platform has it) may not be opened
> for writing; kernel modules (see kld(4)) may not be loaded or
> unloaded.
Disks for mounted file systems ... but the floppy disk was not mounted.
Indeed, the problem was just that: I couldn't mount it.
> 2 Highly secure mode - same as secure mode, plus disks may not be
> opened for writing (except by mount(2)) whether mounted or not.
> This level precludes tampering with file systems by unmounting
> them, but also inhibits running newfs(8) while the system is multi-
> user.
I wasn't trying to open the diskette for writing. Even a read-only attempt
to mount the diskette failed.
If securelevel=3 prohibits mounting floppy disks, then the documentation
should say something like "floppy disks cannot be mounted at this
level."
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