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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 10:00:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-bugs
Subject:   Re: kern/3156: Floppy disk copy freezes
Message-ID:  <199703311800.KAA00315@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/3156; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: dbx@atmos.washington.edu
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/3156: Floppy disk copy freezes
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 19:50:00 +0200

 As dbx@atmos.washington.edu wrote:
 
 > 	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
 
 Well, that's nothing repeatable for me.  Try giving more points.
 
 Also, you should never, _never_ use the block device for raw file
 data.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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