From owner-freebsd-stable  Sat Sep 23 16:22:18 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from oberon.tpgi.com.au (oberon.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.2])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFC337B42C
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 16:22:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from smtpd@localhost)
	by oberon.tpgi.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA21810;
	Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:22:04 +1100
Received: from buffy.tpgi.com.au(203.12.160.34)
 via SMTP by oberon.tpgi.com.au, id smtpda21772; Sun Sep 24 10:21:45 2000
Received: (from smtpd@localhost)
	by buffy.tpgi.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28970;
	Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:21:43 +1100
Received: from tar-56k-165.tpgi.com.au(203.26.26.165), claiming to be "tpgi.com.au"
 via SMTP by buffy.tpgi.com.au, id smtpdCdlKta; Sun Sep 24 10:21:33 2000
Message-ID: <39CD48F9.9587F9C1@tpgi.com.au>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:21:13 +1000
From: eirvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Ignacio <izelaya@infovia.com.ar>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: (possible offtopic) fbsd 3.2 hangs....
References: <39CD07AE.40C8B81A@infovia.com.ar>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Hi Ignacio,


Ignacio wrote:
> 
> when i write to /dev/fd0  or user wormcontrol the
> system goes down.
> 
> if the floppy disk has bad sectors and i make
> 
>         dd if=image.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=2k
> 
> all goes to hell.
> 
> How do i prevent this?
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD microbio.bbs 3.2-RELEASE
> 
> --Ignacio Zelaya
> 

If memory serves me correctly, there was a wee problem with 
FreeBSD and floppy drives around the time of 3.2. There was 
also a rebooting problem under load sometime back then too,
but again I can't recall the exact versions.
 
One way to fix it would be to cvsup to the current 3.x
stable branch, version 3.5, and make world. This is how
I'd do it. 3.5 has outstanding stability.
 
Perhaps there is a quicker fix?
 
Eddie.


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message