From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 19:13:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA12904 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts16-line13.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA12899 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00365; Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:13:16 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 19:13:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: John Goerzen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM driver bug -- causes system lockup! In-Reply-To: <199606241945.OAA00227@complete.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, John Goerzen wrote: > I recently bumped the eject button on my CD-ROM drive. Now I know that this > should not be done -- I should run umount first -- but anyway, I did it. I > realized my mistake, and quickly ran umount /cdrom (it was mounted on > /cdrom). At that point, the system locked up with a panic. > > My CD-ROM drive is a Sony CDU33A. > > Thanks for the help! I wouldn't call this a bug. I can make FreeBSD do strange things if I eject a floppy before unmounting it. Other CDs (like my Plextor 4plex+) lock the tray in. Your Sony doesn't support this it looks like. So in the future, avoid that eject button :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major