From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 6 13:28:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98A637B722 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 13:28:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA65328; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:28:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:28:16 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Oleg Derevenetz , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Write-protected floppy crash In-Reply-To: <200006061902.MAA94704@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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