On Nov 23, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote
> Judging from a short glimpse into sd.c and wd.c it looks like write-enabling
> the label or not doesn't make any difference at all, if you access the disk
> through the raw partition.  The only thing it does is prevent write access
> to the label sector through any other partition than the raw one.

This needs to be fixed, then ... but should'nt this be handled by a common
(possibly MI) function, rather than in each disk driver ?

> Hmm, looking a bit closer it seems as though the wd driver doesn't have this
> problem, but the sd driver does.  Note that this doesn't directly correspond
> to removable/fixed media, but depends only on the driver used.
> 

Rigth. I should have checked both.

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