From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 10 17:30:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749BC37B7C4 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (sol.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.123.100]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA27092; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:29:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:27:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Jackson Donadel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dd bug or kernel bug In-Reply-To: <000a01bfea73$f11cd340$c50a0082@weg.com.br> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Jackson Donadel wrote: > Hi all >=20 > yeasterday i had try to format some disks, first i do a fdformat > /dev/fd0, all right, he warning about write-protection is on but, > let=B4s try dd dd if=3Dboot.img of=3D/dev/fd0 (with the write-protected > disk) all good, lots of errors messages, but one is new to me >=20 > PANIC: i don=B4t remeber where > and > Syncing disks 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9= 9 9 > and all of that history you know something about this? >=20 >=20 This is not a bug of dd or kernel. Do not try to write to a floppy that is write-protected. What is the version of your FreeBSD? 4.0-release seems to handle this better.=20 -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message