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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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