Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906282128380.30685-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990628214558.21814A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > 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. I had this happen to me the other day on my 3.2 system. I thought it was just me because I had mounted the disk several days before and figured I had swapped it out. I also had to reformat the floppy on a Win95 system to make it usable again. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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