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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:27:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dd bug or kernel bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.4.21.0007102026070.21278-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000a01bfea73$f11cd340$c50a0082@weg.com.br>

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On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jackson Donadel wrote:

> Hi all
>=20
> yeasterday i had try to format some disks, first i do a fdformat
> /dev/fd0, all right, he warning about write-protection is on but,
> let=B4s try dd dd if=3Dboot.img of=3D/dev/fd0 (with the write-protected
> disk) all good, lots of errors messages, but one is new to me
>=20
> PANIC: i don=B4t remeber where
> and
> Syncing disks 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9=
 9 9
> and all of that history you know something about this?
>=20
>=20

This is not a bug of dd or kernel. Do not try to write to a floppy that is
write-protected. What is the version of your FreeBSD?  4.0-release seems
to handle this better.=20

-Zhihui



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