From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 20:52:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (3.npt-sdsl.stargate.net [208.223.229.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9A51546A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:52:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (shazam.internal [192.168.5.3]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id DAA68992 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 03:52:45 GMT (envelope-from durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us) Message-ID: <37E852B2.951AFB2D@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 23:53:22 -0400 From: "James C. Durham" Organization: dis- X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy References: <19990920194725.A68736@sr.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > Today I got disappointed for the first time, after having used FreeBSD > since almost two years now. I was making disks for the upgrade: > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 > I had forgot to open the write protection on the floppy, and 3.2-RELEASE > whent totally mad trying to push the floppy drive out of the computer, > and then panic'ing > > Should it be like this? ;-) > Is this the same problem I've seen with mformat causing a panic on a floppy error on 3.2-RELEASE ? I've also had a recent had a recent episode of panics with read errors on Wangtek tapes on 2.2.8 . In both cases, it was a page fault. Just curious.. -- Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message