Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 08:37:58 -0800 (PST) From: dbx@atmos.washington.edu To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/3156: Floppy disk copy freezes Message-ID: <199703311637.IAA00393@cargpc5.atmos.washington.edu> Resent-Message-ID: <199703311640.IAA26003@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3156
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: Copying to floppy device file locks machine
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 31 08:40:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: "Doug Burks"
>Organization:
Dept of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
Standard PC clone --
75MHz Pentium
16MB memory
3-1/2in floppy drive
800MB IDE hard disk
3com 3c509 network card
ATI Mach 64 2MB graphics card
Princeton Ultra 17 monitor
>Description:
When I could straight to the floppy disk, the machine totally
freezes after about 5-10 seconds. Only a cold boot restarts the
machine.
>How-To-Repeat:
dd if=large_file bs=40k of=/dev/fd0.1440
cat large_file >/dev/fd0.1440
>Fix:
??
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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