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Date:      05 May 2002 00:57:19 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        atk2@arctic.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system
Message-ID:  <1020526041.399.0.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020504151729.22141.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>
References:  <20020504151729.22141.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org>

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On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 00:47, atk2@arctic.org wrote:
> Thank you for the note. Hum -- didn't realize that - oh well - things change
> too fast. Well thanks...

Reading /dev/mem _any_ time would have been unadvisable.

You just got lucky before.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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