From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 9:57:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31A3814CD5 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 09:57:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id RAA16649; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:33:48 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA13983; Tue, 25 May 1999 17:23:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199905251523.RAA13983@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Stability In-Reply-To: <199905251359.PAA00387@niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr> from Michel TALON at "May 25, 1999 3:59:17 pm" To: talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr (Michel TALON) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:23:06 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Michel TALON wrote ... > May i add my own story to the instability question? > Second i made a small experiment trying to see wether the floppy > problem is still there. Namelly dd something to a write-protected > floppy. The answer is still the same, namely instant panic. > Of course it is too easy to try to mount a protected floppy and > try to write on it. This should never produce a panic. The problem > was a bug report but has not been adressed. Like: su-2.02# dd if=/kernel of=/dev/rfd0 dd: /dev/rfd0: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 1.121269 secs (0 bytes/sec) su-2.02# On the console: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 0 (No status) This is 3.2 as of May 13 (sic..) For curiosity's sake I'll rebuild a kernel based on yesterdays supped source and re-try the experiment. Wilko | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message