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Date:      Sat, 6 May 2006 11:31:54 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: system crash during file copy to a floppy with bad sectors
Message-ID:  <20060506153154.GA43951@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060506181859.dead1bd4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>
References:  <20060505011127.dadc75f8.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <200605051001.22929.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060506030333.b5c4bccf.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <200605060936.32792.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20060506181859.dead1bd4.rosti.bsd@gmail.com>

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On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:18:59PM +0300, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> On Sat, 6 May 2006 09:36:31 +0930
> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
>=20
> > On Saturday 06 May 2006 09:33, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
> > > > Can you get a back trace? ie enable crash dumps and do it again, or
> > > > transcribe, or photograph the screen as it panics if you are local.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I cannot reproduce it now. Doesn't the old log help?
> > > There is one "Fatal trap 12".
> >=20
> > Only if you have the backtrace I think.
>=20
> In attempt to "emulate" bad sectors I got another crash, that looks
> similar (but not exactly same) to the original two crashes. I just
> pulled out the diskette before file copy is finished. I know, that
> must never be done, but sometimes people are in a great hurry or just
> do mistakes. IMHO that isn't a good reason for a system crash.

It's a known and hard-to-fix problem, though.

Kris

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