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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:33:33 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Dmitry Krasnov <dek@dt.amur.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reboot on accessing to write-protected diskette
Message-ID:  <20000418133332.A2712@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru>; from dek@dt.amur.ru on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 04:58:08PM %2B1000
References:  <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru>

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> I mount the diskette by this command:
> 
>  # mount -t msdos -o noexec /dev/fd0 /mnt
> 
> Then I access the files as usually, but a bit later or at umount'ing - BOOM!
> Diskette was accidentally write-protected! The system hangs up or reboot!
> Few seconds before it has happened the kernel is complains that the blocks
> cannot be written. Afterward computer stop responding.Without panic and
> without any chances to stop the fatal activity.
> 
> I use FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE, cvsup'ed at 08.04.2000. Two neighbor computers
> with similar configuration has the same behaviour.

I've seen this too. This bug has been there for months (since 3.1 if
not earlier) and I think there are at least two PR's on this. 

If it's an MSDOS floppy, you can try mtools. (ports/emulators/mtools)



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