From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 14 10:10:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.com (c97217-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.83.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9EC15140 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:51:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerry@home.com) Received: (from jerry@localhost) by home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA80878 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:51:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerry) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:51:40 -0800 From: Jerry Gardner To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [chad@DCFinc.com: Re: access floppy rw to lock system] Message-ID: <20000114095140.A80621@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad R. Larson wrote: >Well, I was protesting the logic of doing a read/write mount of read-only >media. Mount it R/O and there is no issue. > >You wouldn't mount a CD-ROM read/write, would you? No, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't expect that doing so would hang or panic the machine either. There is definately a bug in the floppy code, and it's been there for some time now. Hangs and crashes after improperly accessing a floppy do not occur with any other operating system I use, so why should it happen with FreeBSD? Hell, even Windows doesn't crash under these circumstances! -- Jerry Gardner | "Bill Clinton has all the steely resolve w6uv@home.com | of a kamakaze pilot on his 37th mission." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message