From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 8: 0:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE671544C for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:00:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from bunny.monsterbymistake.com([205.207.163.17]) (1324 bytes) by mail.monsterbymistake.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:08 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.107 1999-Sep-8 #1 built 1999-Sep-11) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:01:08 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: access floppy rw to lock system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI: I have a repeatable problem on my FreeBSD-3.4Stable workstation. If the floppy disk is physically tabbed as read-only and I mount it rw I can then 'lock' the system up by using vim (to read a text-file on the disk ... less had the same problem). Is this expected behaviour? I did this from the console and could still between the virtual consoles. The only way to get going again was to reboot. After that happened twice I tabbed the disk writable and things were fine. FreeBSD smash 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE #20: Mon Jan 10 12:14:18 EST 2000 root@smash:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMASH i386 I only think that this is a problem because this could have been my server at work. Sorry if this is just a result of my own ignorance. thanks, =derek Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message