Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:30:02 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Floppy read error causes reboot Message-ID: <42C3673A.1010201@u.washington.edu>
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Hello,
I recently tried reading a 3 1/2" floppy disk in my machine and was
moving a file from a Windows machine to my FreeBSD machine. Turns out
since most of the floppies are ancient, so after using them in one
machine, they tend to fail in the other or they just fail on the first shot.
Anyhow, what occurred was that I tried to install a port and tar
timed out as it couldn't read from the file. Then in an attempt to copy
the port binary, the machine appeared to deadlock (although I didn't try
to interrupt it), and then the machine rebooted automatically after what
I believe was 30 seconds.
Now, this is my first time submitting a 'bug' to this list, so
instead of including information now I will submit any and all
information by request in whatever form someone finds necessary. I will
say though that I'm running 5.4-CURRENT on a pentium 4 with a custom
kernel, if that makes any difference.
Thanks for your help!
-Garrett
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