From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 06:13:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19177 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.wan (trltech.demon.co.uk [194.222.7.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19150 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 06:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: from rdls.dhcp.sw.wan (rdls.dhcp.sw.wan [192.9.201.75]) by ns.wan (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11327 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:15:26 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rdls.dhcp.sw.wan with SMTP id 08214863; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:13:45 +0000 Message-ID: <36220089.28A573B2@jezebel.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:13:45 +0100 From: Richard Smith Organization: http://www.trltech.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Should a corrupt floppy disk cause a panic? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, While reading a file off a particular msdos floppy disk I get: panic: isa_dmacheck: no physical page present syncing disks... panic: msdosfs_lock: locking against myself ...and the system reboots. This happens consistently on three different FreeBSD systems all running 2.2.7R. The disk is indeed bad and probably needs throwing away or reformatting. However, getting to my question, the mount man page states that "It is possible for a corrupted file system to cause a crash", so, does this mean that the developers don't want me to report this as a bug? I have created an image of the floppy, if anybody's interested :-) FreeBSD rdls.sw.wan 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 22 08:48:29 GMT 1998 root@builder.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 -- Richard Smith Assistant Chief Engineer TRL Technology Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message