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Date:      Wed, 23 Feb 2000 02:33:00 +0100
From:      Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To:        Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>
Cc:        Clark Shishido <clark@desktop.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic on `ls -la' on Mac-formatted /dev/fd0
Message-ID:  <38B338CB.741A8CB7@jollem.com>
References:  <38B197A7.79930A37@jollem.com> <20000221122050.A48074@desktop.com> <38B19F96.1171B089@jollem.com> <v04220802b4d751f34b79@[192.168.1.42]> <20000222093538.E14994@lava.net>

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Clifton,

I strongly agree with you. FreeBSD should *never* panic if there's a way
to deal with the problem in a different manner. So I consider this one of
the few bugs in FreeBSD. But Windows 2000 still has about 62.000 more :-)

Ernst


Clifton Royston wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:52:25PM -0800, Clark Shishido wrote:
> > At 21:27 +0100 2000.02.21, Ernst de Haan wrote:
> > >The disk is DOS-formatted by a Mac, I believe. I just issue:
> > >
> > >   mount /mnt/floppy
> > >
> > >and my /etc/fstab specifies that /mnt/floppy is /dev/fd0, type msdos
> > >
> >
> > if it's really a Mac floppy with a HFS partition, you'll want to use
> > hfsutils to mount the floppy, check /usr/ports/emulators/hfsutils. I
> > haven't used them in a while so I can't quote the command for you.
> 
> Shouldn't it be considered a bug that the kernel panics, regardless of
> what's the right command to mount the floppy?
> 
>   -- Clifton
> 
> --
>  Clifton Royston  --  LavaNet Systems Architect --  cliftonr@lava.net
>       The named which can be named is not the Eternal named.
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Ernst de Haan
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and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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