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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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