From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 11:13:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE8C15759 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:13:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26668; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:13:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu Subject: Re: help, it won't let go of my floppy In-Reply-To: <199906112300.SAA59728@eyry.econ.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > > There seems to be something wrong with my floppy drive, or the diskette > in it. > > I tried to umount it, and it's seeking endlessly. It's been at it > about 20 minutes so far. Last time that this happened, it resulted in > not properly dismounting the other file systems on the next boot. > > My hard disk now seems to be abnormally busy, as well. > > How do I get control of the system back? Interrupt problems? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message