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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2002 18:06:30 +0100
From:      Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>
To:        "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@kompas-media.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RE: Crash System with MSDOS file-system driver!
Message-ID:  <20020208180630.A21149@sr.se>
In-Reply-To: <LOEJICFDGCPPJOMJCJKDIEPHCGAA.bas@kompas-media.nl>; from bas@kompas-media.nl on Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:50:04PM %2B0100
References:  <20020208173958.C20630@sr.se> <LOEJICFDGCPPJOMJCJKDIEPHCGAA.bas@kompas-media.nl>

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:50:04PM +0100, Bas v.d. Wiel wrote:
> Yep, this does weird things to my 4.5-STABLE box as well. But it doesn't
> halt it completely. I can still switch TTY's and use the keyboard. Pressing
> ctrl-C for instance does display ^C but that's hardly useful. I didn't test
> network connectivity yet, but I'd say this is hardly desirable behavior.
> Of course it's totally silly to mount a write-protected volume read/write,
> but then again the OS shouldn't bomb out like this (or is that an Apple
> phrase) when you do try it. Accidents happen. I think you found yourself a
> bug alright.

There has been a bug for this for as long as I've used FreeBSD (4 years
now), so I learnt the hard way. Never put a write protected floppy in!
It has behaved a bit more cultivated later though. Earlier you had
immediate reboot when trying to write to a write protected floppy.

> 
> Bas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gunnar Flygt
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 5:40 PM
> To: Matteo
> Cc: FreeBSD Stable
> Subject: Re: Crash System with MSDOS file-system driver!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:37:15AM -0800, Matteo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've 4.5-RELEASE and 4.4-STABLE.
> >
> > Try to follow this steps:
> >
> > 1) Mount a msdos floppy write protected in /floppy
> > 2) cd /floppy
> > 3) rm somefileo
> 
> Why do you try to delete a file on a write protected floppy?
> 
> > At this point kernel show this message:
> >
> > fd0c: hard error writing fsbn 56 of 56-63 (ST0
> > 40<abnrml> ST1 2<write_prosend out a error messages...
> > etc etc
> >
> > Next Step:
> >
> > 4) ls
> >
> > And system halt! I try with a UFS floppy and it's all
> > ok.
> >
> >
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