From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 9 22:15: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web1403.mail.yahoo.com (web1403.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.23.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7249D14FCF for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gwq_uk@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 5579 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Dec 1999 22:39:56 -0000 Message-ID: <19991209223956.5578.qmail@web1403.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [139.130.59.227] by web1403.mail.yahoo.com; Thu, 09 Dec 1999 14:39:56 PST Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:39:56 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Greg=20Quinlan?= Subject: Bad Floppy causes Kernel Panic (3.4-RC) To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, Operating on a cvsup-ed 3.4-RC 10-12-99: I had a bad floppy which I was trying to "tar" to but my server kernel panic-ed with the message: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn .... Dirty Buffers kernel panic etc.... When I have tried to reproduce it (ie. damage a floppy and "tar" to it) I got a similar message but NO panic. I put the original floppy back and "tar"-ed to it again, and the system panic-ed and rebooted. So it was unique to this floppy. When I tried formating the floppy (fdformat) I got: EVVVVVVVVV...... So it appears to be that the very first part of the floppy was bad and this caused the kernel panic. ALSO: The more annoying problem was when I tried tar-ing to the floppy I delibrately damaged. The tar program could not be killed and I was forced to reboot. Thanks Greg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message