Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 21:41:11 +0000 From: John Ekins <jre@globalnet.co.uk> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: System crash when trying to write a file on a bad floppy Message-ID: <3C51D0F7.4B07CD01@globalnet.co.uk>
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Hello, I've just had a system crash when trying to write a file on a "bad" floppy. I'm running FreeBSD 4.4-Release and had just copied kern.flp for 4.5-RC3 onto a floppy using dd. I mounted up the floppy without any unusual flags (and certainly not read only) as I wanted to put a boot.config file on there. I typed echo "/boot/loader -h" > /mnt/floppy/boot.config". The write failed, the floppy light stayed on and then suddenly the machine rebooted without warning. Alas I don't have a crash dump as my RAM is bigger than my swap space. I did notice several entries like the following (these were the last) in /var/log/messages after it rebooted: Jan 25 21:15:52 <kern.crit> chunky /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 16 of 16-18 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_prot ect> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17) Jan 25 21:15:52 <kern.crit> chunky /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 56 of 56-63 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_prot ect> ST2 0 cyl 1 hd 1 sec 3) Jan 25 21:15:52 <kern.crit> chunky /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 64 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_protect> ST2 0 cyl 1 hd 1 sec 11) Jan 25 21:15:53 <kern.crit> chunky /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 16 of 16-18 (ST0 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_prot ect> ST2 0 cyl 0 hd 0 sec 17) As mentioned, the floppy was not write protected, so I guess it was just faulty. However I was a bit surprised that the machine crashed like this. Has anyone seen any comments on this? Cheers, John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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