Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:06:53 +0200 From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, will@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/10828: 3.1-STABLE freezes when writing to floppydrive without medium Message-ID: <20010525150653.A1914@curry.mchp.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105252254290.84154-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:00:55PM %2B1000 References: <20010525115710.A634@curry.mchp.siemens.de> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105252254290.84154-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, 25-May-2001 at 23:00:55 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > On Thu, 24-May-2001 at 18:47:24 -0700, will@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > Synopsis: 3.1-STABLE freezes when writing to floppydrive without medium > > > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > > > State-Changed-By: will > > > State-Changed-When: Thu May 24 18:47:16 PDT 2001 > > > State-Changed-Why: > > > Is this still a problem? > > > > The 'write without a medium error' seems to be fixed. However, > > the following procedure freezes the machine when done with > > a write protected floppy: > > > > mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > > cp /etc/printcap /mnt > > cd /mnt > > ls -l > > Is this in 4.3? I would have thought that there would be no problems > (except lots of retries) until unmount. Yes, tested a few hours ago on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #61: Fri May 25 07:00:56 CEST 2001 -Andre > > ffs has some related fixes in -current (ffs_fsync() now actually waits > for all I/O activity to complete when it is requested to do so; thus > it waits for write protected floppies to become un-write protected, > or forever for uncorrectable write errors). ffs in 4.3 and and msdosfs > in all versions are missing this fix. This probably causes worse > things than waiting forever to happen at unmount time. > > Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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