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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:51:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990628214558.21814A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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Suppose you have a *write-protected* DOS floppy and you do:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy  <-- this is OK

# cp somefile /floppy  <-- a lot of error messages

# umount /floppy   <-- crash

Now the system tries to sync the dirty buffers and fails.  You have to
press a key to reboot. 

Is there anything wrong here or FreeBSD simply does not handle this in a
more elegant way? 

Thanks for any help.

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Zhihui Zhang.  Please visit http://www.freebsd.org
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