Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:33:33 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Dmitry Krasnov <dek@dt.amur.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot on accessing to write-protected diskette Message-ID: <20000418133332.A2712@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru>; from dek@dt.amur.ru on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 04:58:08PM %2B1000 References: <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru>
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> I mount the diskette by this command: > > # mount -t msdos -o noexec /dev/fd0 /mnt > > Then I access the files as usually, but a bit later or at umount'ing - BOOM! > Diskette was accidentally write-protected! The system hangs up or reboot! > Few seconds before it has happened the kernel is complains that the blocks > cannot be written. Afterward computer stop responding.Without panic and > without any chances to stop the fatal activity. > > I use FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, cvsup'ed at 08.04.2000. Two neighbor computers > with similar configuration has the same behaviour. I've seen this too. This bug has been there for months (since 3.1 if not earlier) and I think there are at least two PR's on this. If it's an MSDOS floppy, you can try mtools. (ports/emulators/mtools) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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