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Date:      Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:28:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dpeverley@mpc-data.co.uk (David Peverley)
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: System crash...
Message-ID:  <199906021828.UAA01098@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3755019E.806C856F@mpc-data.co.uk> from David Peverley at "Jun 2, 1999 11: 4:14 am"

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As David Peverley wrote ...
> Hi,
> 
>   I've been experiencing a couple of crashes on my system (PII 
> generic BX mobo, ATAPI DVD/CD drive, EIDE HDD) when accessing the
> floppy drive. First instnce I tried tarring some files to a raw
> /dev/fd0 when the disk was write protected - syslog got a few

raw /dev/fd0? Like /dev/rfd0? 

> write protect messages and then the machine reset. Second time
> I tried the same but hadnt inserted the floppy fully and it
> hung the machine. 
>  1) Are these errors known about?

This is reproducible by multiple people when using /dev/fd0.
Using /dev/rfd0 I cannot reproduce it.

>  2) Would the list like me to try and reproduce these in detail?

dd if=/kernel of=/dev/fd0 was enough for me to see it panic.

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