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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:24:31 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Oleg Derevenetz <oleg@oleg.vsi.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Write-protected floppy crash
Message-ID:  <20000606172431.A15405@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006061906450.8772-100000@oleg.vsi.ru>; from oleg@oleg.vsi.ru on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:13:29PM %2B0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006061906450.8772-100000@oleg.vsi.ru>

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On Tue 2000-06-06 (19:13), Oleg Derevenetz wrote:
> When write-protected floppy mounted in R/W mode, write attempt to this
> floppy follows kernel panic (dirty buffers) and reboot. Is this correct ? 
> The best way IMO is to always mount write-protected floppies in R/O mode.

It's not 'correct', but it does happen, and is copiously documented and
mentioned on various mailing lists.  It would be nice if you could fix
it *grin*.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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