Why can't I access my floppy disk?

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Tue Feb 22 18:46:08 GMT 2005


On Feb 22, 2005, at 8:27 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony at wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>> Dan Nelson writes:
>>
>>> Is it write-protected?  Securelevel too high?  Check your console or
>>> dmesg output; the kernel may be printing more info there.
>>
>> No console messages that I've seen, but securelevel=3.  Does
>> securelevel=3 prevent me from mounting floppies??
>>

Why would you want to mount an MSDOS floppy on a server?  That reduces 
the security and stability of your server

Chad
(before any of you reply, go research Anthony's missives on servers)



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