From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 10:14:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA19385 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.220]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA19380 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:14:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00300; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:14:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 10:14:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Eric Berenguier cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash when removing floppy disk In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Eric Berenguier wrote: > >Don't pull the disks out until you've umounted them and the drive light > >goes off. > I don't thing this is a solution. > I can't be sure one of the people that will use the computer will never > do this by mistake (i've done it..). > > A user mistake should not crash the system. > > i would accept getting a lot of error messages and/or being unable to > umount the floppy disk and/or having the floppy disk destroyed after this > mistake. but not a system crash! True. I believe that complaint was what drove the fd driver improvement discussion that went on in either -questions or -current some time ago. I don't know if anything came out of it in the way of code, but any effort would be substantial work. (Thus the phrase "the fd driver is one huge bug.") Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major