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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