From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 20:54:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA13684 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.231]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA13678 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00369; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Eric Berenguier cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! Floppy drive problem: crash the computer ! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Eric Berenguier wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD Release 2.1.0, and i have problems with my floppy > drive. When i read or write to a disk, i get a lot of error messages (log > follows) and sometimes it crashes the computer during writes (computer hang, > or panic+reboot). I've no problem with dos with the same disks (i've checked > this with many disks) Ouch. Have you checked your floppy drive cable, drive, and controller? Wow, it must be nasty if it panics the system. :( > if it panics during a write: > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0x29000000 > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf016e6bb > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1,gran 1 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0 > current process = 205 (cp) > interrupt mask = net tty bio > panic: page fault > > syncing disks ... 25 25 25 25 25 (a lot of these) 25 25 giving up > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds, etc.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major