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Subject: Re: One really easy way to panic your -current system
To: jkh@whisker.cdrom.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 22:36:52 -1000 (HST)
From: "David Langford" <root@dihelix.com>
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Jordan Hubbard
>
>
>Mount the FreeBSD 2.1 CDROM (or any other, probably, this is just
>for this example) and do a:
>
>dd if=/cdrom/dists
>
>(e.g. try to read from the directory)
>
>panic:  vmwakeup: neg numoutput
>eip is 0xf01b65f3
>
>				Jordan

On a similar note shouldnt  dd if=TEXTFILE of=/dev/st0 work?
With my setup the machine hangs....

aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq 9 on isa
(aic0:2:0): "ARCHIVE Python 25588-XXX 2.96" type 1 removable SCSI 2
st0(aic0:2:0): Sequential-Access density code 0x13,  drive empty