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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:28:16 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Oleg Derevenetz <oleg@oleg.vsi.ru>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Write-protected floppy crash
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000606152501.59592A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006061902.MAA94704@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

::Does it make a difference that this happens when you dd to the device,
::without going through a filesystem layer?  I don't ever use filesystems on
::floppies, and have had this crash.  
::
::David Scheidt
:
:    Hmm.    It shouldn't happen if you dd.  If it does then the bug is
:    probably cockpit trouble somewhere -- should be easy to fix.
:

It no longer happens with dd or tar.  This is with a -CURRENT as of last
night.  I know it used to, though, because I ran into it making boot disks.
I'm not a big user of floppy disks -- only one of my machines has a drive --
so I don't know when the dd part of it got fixed.  


David



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