From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 8:24:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF1E137B76E for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12zLDU-00041T-00; Tue, 06 Jun 2000 17:24:32 +0200 Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:24:31 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Oleg Derevenetz Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write-protected floppy crash Message-ID: <20000606172431.A15405@mithrandr.moria.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from oleg@oleg.vsi.ru on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:13:29PM +0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message