Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:08:03 +0100 From: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis@ntlworld.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UMASS: fatal trap while unplugging floppy drive Message-ID: <1064747283.23318.22.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> In-Reply-To: <20030928104855.GT1105@funkthat.com> References: <1064745279.23318.17.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> <20030928104855.GT1105@funkthat.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:48, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Antony T Curtis wrote this message on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:34 +0100: > > I cvsupped this morning and rebuilt world and kernel... > > > > When I unplug the USB floppy drive, I get the following > > Did you have the filesystem mounted? Right now USB is not at all safe > for hot plugging. If the recent move to GEOM, it may make unplugging > devices even more dangerous. You might try ejecting the media through > camcontrol before unplugging the drive. (or even physically ejecting it) The filesystem was not mounted - I used mtools to examine the disk. Plugging in seemed to work fine. I just cannot unplug. > patches welcome! :) I'll probably take a peek... -- Antony T Curtis BSc Unix Analyst Programmer http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/dsETql7dp2cddmIRAtBZAJ0fnQByQ7wdClHMYoFHNpt/VFRAVACfVJ2D NQgt9tY/lKsfDAfP8G610Hk= =uzdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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