From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 13:28:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFEA014E66 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:28:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id PAA02658; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:27:51 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id PAA02654; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:27:50 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <020b01be7574$12459a00$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "Andre Albsmeier" , Subject: Re: Heavy MSDOS fs problems with floppies Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:28:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It has been around for a while. Try this: Insert a write protected floppy disk: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=4096 count=10 I am sure this will crash your system too. If it doesn't try increasing the count. ;-] I thought that they had fixed this - have you built the world lately? Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Andre Albsmeier To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 3:16 PM Subject: Heavy MSDOS fs problems with floppies >I am experiencing heavy problem when using MSDOS filesystems >on floppies on 3.1-STABLE. When writing to a write protected floppy, >the system crashed and rebooted. When copying lots of files from >the mounted floppy to the local harddrive the systems freezed after >a while; no mouse movement, only the reset button helped. > >I am not using mtools, I am mounting with -t msdos... > >Anybody else has seen this? > >Thanks, > > -Andre > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message