From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 4 09:11:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA02013 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:11:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02008 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA24797 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:11:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:11:50 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Title: How to lock up FreeBSD with just 1 command. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Stick a Mac formatted disk in your Jaz drive. # mount -t msdos /dev/sdXc /mnt (Where sdX is your Jaz drive.) Pound on the keyboard, ping, telnet, try whatever to revive your box, only to discover... No dice. Note that it didn't crash, and no error message was produced anywhere that I could find, just the machine didn't respond to anything. P6-200, Adaptec 2940U, Jaz. -current as of 11/29