From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Nov 5 01:07:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA09054 for freebsd-fs-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:07:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.wan (trltech.demon.co.uk [194.222.7.191]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA09045 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:07:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Received: from jezebel.demon.co.uk (rdls.dhcp.sw.wan [192.9.201.75]) by ns.wan (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA20836 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:07:14 GMT (envelope-from richard@jezebel.demon.co.uk) Message-ID: <36416ACE.44FE439B@jezebel.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:07:26 +0000 From: Richard Smith Organization: http://www.trltech.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Should a corrupt floppy disk cause a panic? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [this question was originally posted to -questions] This is question on policy. The msdosfs will panic and the system will die if you mount a floppy with a corrupt format. I have an image of such a floppy and I can crash my system every time. The error message is: panic: isa_dmacheck: no physical page present syncing disks... panic: msdosfs_lock: locking against myself ...and the system reboots. I am using 2.2.7R and have tested it on three separate systems. The man page for mount effectively says "live with it". So is this a bug or a feature? _______________________________________________________________________ Richard Smith Assistant Chief Engineer TRL Technology Limited To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message