Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 03:00:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/10959: 3.1-STABLE crashes due to a floppy mount problem Message-ID: <199908121000.DAA58200@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/10959; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, jkoshy@FreeBSD.org Cc: bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Re: kern/10959: 3.1-STABLE crashes due to a floppy mount problem Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:54:41 +1000 >bde> The good news is that you found a new bug :-). Rev.1.196 of vfs_bio.c >bde> causes lots of problems by arranging for writes to be retried forever > >Using UFS instead of MSDOSFS leads to an (a) inability to unmount the >floppy and (b) and endless series of retried writes to the floppy. >No panic, though. No problem if the machine is attended :-). You can "fix" it by removing the write protection or by changing to disposable writable media. The latter also works for hard write errors, but is only possible because the driver doesn't support media change (when the media changes, buffers for the original media should be held until the original media comes back, or discarded). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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