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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: kern/2732: mcopy 3.0 causes kernel hang
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The following reply was made to PR kern/2732; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: mh6225@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/2732: mcopy 3.0 causes kernel hang
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:29:56 +0100

 As Matt Hamilton wrote:
 
 > when trying to use mcopy to copy a file to drive a: the system hangs.
 > Cannot telnet in, cannot change virtual terminals, cannot ^C, ^Z or
 > anything. Caps-lock light hangs.
 
 Hmm, i doubt we could do anything about this.  The information
 presented is simply too sparse, and very apparently, nobody else has
 seen this problem before.  I doubt that's just since nobody uses mcopy
 at all. ;-)
 
 Can you use your floppy normally otherwise?  Don't you have any more
 datapoints to consider?
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)