Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:27:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: vapi@student.dei.uc.pt (Pedro Alexandre Vapi) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About a bug Message-ID: <199604182027.WAA02002@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960418114415.6130A-100000@student.dei.uc.pt> from "Pedro Alexandre Vapi" at Apr 18, 96 11:55:31 am
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As Pedro Alexandre Vapi wrote: > I have a diskette that is damage. I tried in MS-DOS and that > system told me that the diskette was unreadable. As I think that DOS > isn't a good system, i tried it on FreeBSD 2.1 I did it in that way: > > (as root) > mount_msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt > (as single user) > cd /mnt > ls -al > > > (the result was) > panic: dma_check... > > syncing disks... 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5... That's not surprising. msdosfs doesn't check very good against ``can't happen'' situations. But i think you could always damage any kind of filesystem on a disk into a state where the kernel might panic later. That's why you're normally supposed to fsck the file system before, but we currently don't supply a msdosfsck program. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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