Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:12:21 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/15961: No keyboard import possible after floppy drive error -- a brain-damaged workaround Message-ID: <200001081312.OAA23673@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <857abl$c38$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@nojunk.com> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>> >Synopsis: System allows no keyboard input after floppy drive
> error
>> >Severity: serious
>> >Priority: low
>> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>> >State: open
>
>> >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.
I guess the submitter did the usual mistake and used the
block device (/dev/fd*), not the raw device (/dev/rfd*).
If that's true, I'd suggest that the PR gets closed, because
it was just a pilot error.
Regards
Oliver
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