From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 28 19: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D0E914BD7 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA21819 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:51:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 21:51:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: A way to crash system (3.1 & 3.2) with floppy 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 Suppose you have a *write-protected* DOS floppy and you do: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy <-- this is OK # cp somefile /floppy <-- a lot of error messages # umount /floppy <-- crash Now the system tries to sync the dirty buffers and fails. You have to press a key to reboot. Is there anything wrong here or FreeBSD simply does not handle this in a more elegant way? Thanks for any help. -------------------------------------------------- Zhihui Zhang. Please visit http://www.freebsd.org -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message