From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 8 5:12:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65FB158F4 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA23673; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:12:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 14:12:21 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001081312.OAA23673@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/15961: No keyboard import possible after floppy drive error -- a brain-damaged workaround X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <857abl$c38$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salvo Bartolotta 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message