Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 15:28:18 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@visi.com> To: "Andre Albsmeier" <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Heavy MSDOS fs problems with floppies Message-ID: <020b01be7574$12459a00$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com>
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It has been around for a while. Try this:
Insert a write protected floppy disk:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 bs=4096 count=10
I am sure this will crash your system too. If it doesn't try increasing
the count. ;-]
I thought that they had fixed this - have you built the world lately?
Tom Veldhouse
veldy@visi.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 3:16 PM
Subject: Heavy MSDOS fs problems with floppies
>I am experiencing heavy problem when using MSDOS filesystems
>on floppies on 3.1-STABLE. When writing to a write protected floppy,
>the system crashed and rebooted. When copying lots of files from
>the mounted floppy to the local harddrive the systems freezed after
>a while; no mouse movement, only the reset button helped.
>
>I am not using mtools, I am mounting with -t msdos...
>
>Anybody else has seen this?
>
>Thanks,
>
> -Andre
>
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