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Date:      Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:08:03 +0100
From:      Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UMASS: fatal trap while unplugging floppy drive
Message-ID:  <1064747283.23318.22.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030928104855.GT1105@funkthat.com>
References:  <1064745279.23318.17.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <20030928104855.GT1105@funkthat.com>

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On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:48, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Antony T Curtis wrote this message on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:34 +0100:
> > I cvsupped this morning and rebuilt world and kernel...
> >=20
> > When I unplug the USB floppy drive, I get the following
>=20
> Did you have the filesystem mounted?  Right now USB is not at all safe
> for hot plugging.  If the recent move to GEOM, it may make unplugging
> devices even more dangerous.  You might try ejecting the media through
> camcontrol before unplugging the drive.  (or even physically ejecting it)

The filesystem was not mounted - I used mtools to examine the disk.

Plugging in seemed to work fine. I just cannot unplug.

> patches welcome! :)

I'll probably take a peek...

--=20
Antony T Curtis BSc     Unix Analyst Programmer
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/

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