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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 1997 14:13:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      uban@netnitco.net
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   i386/5223: mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt and failure to reliably transfer files on floppy
Message-ID:  <199712042213.OAA08725@hub.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <199712042220.OAA09385@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         5223
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt and failure to reliably transfer files on floppy
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec  4 14:20:00 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom Uban
>Organization:
self
>Release:        2.2.2 June 1997 Walnut Creek CDROM
>Environment:
FreeBSD myname.my.domain 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 20 10:45:24 GMT 1997     jkh@time.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
# mount_msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
# cp file /mnt
# umount /mnt
# mount msdos /dev/fd0.1440 /mnt
# diff cmp file /mnt/file
file /mnt/file differ: char 275, line 1
#

Files copied to the MS-DOS floppy seem to have bytes replaced
with NULL.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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