From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 2 12:54:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118D31539E for ; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:54:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA18678; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:42:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01098; Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:28:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199906021828.UAA01098@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: System crash... In-Reply-To: <3755019E.806C856F@mpc-data.co.uk> from David Peverley at "Jun 2, 1999 11: 4:14 am" To: dpeverley@mpc-data.co.uk (David Peverley) Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:28:47 +0200 (CEST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As David Peverley wrote ... > Hi, > > I've been experiencing a couple of crashes on my system (PII > generic BX mobo, ATAPI DVD/CD drive, EIDE HDD) when accessing the > floppy drive. First instnce I tried tarring some files to a raw > /dev/fd0 when the disk was write protected - syslog got a few raw /dev/fd0? Like /dev/rfd0? > write protect messages and then the machine reset. Second time > I tried the same but hadnt inserted the floppy fully and it > hung the machine. > 1) Are these errors known about? This is reproducible by multiple people when using /dev/fd0. Using /dev/rfd0 I cannot reproduce it. > 2) Would the list like me to try and reproduce these in detail? dd if=/kernel of=/dev/fd0 was enough for me to see it panic. | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message