From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 20 16:55:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cornell.edu (cornell.edu [132.236.56.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0491B14FC6 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 16:55:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjs17@cornell.edu) Received: from cornell.edu (ith2-1a2.twcny.rr.com [24.92.235.162]) by cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02067; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:54:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37E6C92D.4A1BA603@cornell.edu> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:54:21 -0400 From: Tom Savitsky X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Gunnar Flygt , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.2 panic when dd-ing to floppy References: <21320.937855474@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote:  > > But would that prevent the panicking? > > No. This is what happens for me (3.3S) with a write-protected disk in the drive: ~>dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 dd: /dev/rfd0: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 1.114227 secs (0 bytes/sec) ~> No problems ~>dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 Kernel panics Also, a few of the tutorial sites seem misinformed about the use of /dev/rfd0, a For an example, see the FreeBSD Diary's 23 Apr entry. Tom Savitsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message