From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 4 8:27:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D97137B419 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 08:27:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp424.sa.adsl.on.net [150.101.244.167]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g44FRRQ23841; Sun, 5 May 2002 00:57:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g44FRW52079799; Sun, 5 May 2002 00:57:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: dd of=/dev/eide_drive bs=8192 if=/dev/mem kills system From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: atk2@arctic.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020504151729.22141.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> References: <20020504151729.22141.qmail@twinlark.arctic.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 05 May 2002 00:57:19 +0930 Message-Id: <1020526041.399.0.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 00:47, atk2@arctic.org wrote: > Thank you for the note. Hum -- didn't realize that - oh well - things change > too fast. Well thanks... Reading /dev/mem _any_ time would have been unadvisable. You just got lucky before. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message