From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 1: 4:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E82037B9DB for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 01:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 3287 invoked from network); 18 Apr 2000 08:03:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 18 Apr 2000 08:03:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 2733 invoked by uid 211); 18 Apr 2000 08:03:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:33:33 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Dmitry Krasnov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboot on accessing to write-protected diskette Message-ID: <20000418133332.A2712@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Krasnov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000d01bfa903$745644b0$2700a8c0@dt.amur.ru>; from dek@dt.amur.ru on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 04:58:08PM +1000 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message