From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 4:24:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EEDA14D8F for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 04:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@nojunk.com) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp31-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.223]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA30288; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:24:44 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 12:26:10 GMT Message-ID: <20000108.12261000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: i386/15961: No keyboard import possible after floppy drive error -- a brain-damaged workaround To: kjwolf@seismic.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000107111613.2B3B410D@solling.seismic.de> X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/7/00, 12:16:13 PM, kjwolf@seismic.de wrote regarding i386/15961: No keyboard import possible after floppy drive error: > >Number: 15961 > >Category: i386 > >Synopsis: System allows no keyboard input after floppy drive error > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 7 03:20:01 PST 2000 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Klaus-Juergen Wolf > >Release: FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386 > >Organization: > >Environment: > PII-300 96MB > >Description: > After erroneously having mounted a write-protected floppy without -r > option (i.e. read-writable), a write attempt on the floppy results in > the system ignoring keyboard input (w/o any further I/O activity), even > Ctrl-Alt-Del (as explicitly allowed in the kernel config). The system > didn't appear to hang as a whole; one could switch between the virtual= > consoles. > Error messages: > Jan 7 11:57:24 solling /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 284 (ST0 40 ST1 2 ST2 0 cyl 7 hd 1 sec 15) > Jan 7 11:57:24 solling /kernel: fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 1282 (ST0 40 ST1 2 ST2 0 cyl 35 hd 1 sec 5) > >How-To-Repeat: > Mount a write protected floppy writable and write on it. > >Fix: > > Unknown. Dear readers, please pardon my plain writing; the nature of my workaround requires it :-)) I experience an analogous problem on my box, a Pentium III 450 Mhz, 384 MB RAM, running FreeBSD 3.3 Release. When I try to mount a write-protected diskette (no read-only option specified), I get similar errors. The errors are repeated again and again: the OS tries to access the floppy disk *continually*, every few seconds. Brain-damaged workaround: while the OS is not trying to access the diskette, take it off; insert any NON-write-protected floppy. The repeated access operations will come to an end; the OS will no longer complain; hitting "Enter" (or "Return") will give you back the console. Best regards, Salvo N.B. myjokingdomain =3D=3D=3D> neomedia.it to e-mail to me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message