From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 03:59:02 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F4516A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:59:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from knuth.hurstdog.org (knuth.hurstdog.org [69.55.236.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FEBA43D1F for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:59:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com) Received: (qmail 95224 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2005 03:59:01 -0000 Received: from knuth.hurstdog.org (HELO fred.colohowes.org) (69.55.236.147) by knuth.hurstdog.org with SMTP; 28 Apr 2005 03:59:01 -0000 Received: by fred.colohowes.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id F04158FE46; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:10:35 -0600 (MDT) Received: from piro.quadium.net (piro.colohowes.org [10.27.56.90]) by fred.colohowes.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4FA8FE49 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:45:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from beaker.data-secure.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by piro.quadium.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j3RNW8TR011015 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:32:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim.howe@celebrityresorts.com) Received: by beaker.data-secure.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B7A823988B; Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:42:35 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <87oecl57nk.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> <20050411230107.GA11717@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <87y8boeo7d.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> <20050412164126.GA18471@odin.ac.hmc.edu> From: Tim Howe Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:42:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050412164126.GA18471@odin.ac.hmc.edu> (Brooks Davis's message of "Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:41:26 -0700") Message-ID: <873btbkcr8.fsf@beaker.data-secure.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Corporate Culture, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Kodak USB flash reader causes freezes, panics X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 03:59:02 -0000 Brooks Davis writes: >> > > Reproducibly, if I begin copying data to a [...] CF card [...] it >> > > works for a while, then freezes the system. [...] > Sounds like you should file a PR about the issue. Are you sure the file > system in question is OK? There were some msdosfs corruption bugs fixed > recently. Taking your suggestion I zeroed out the CF card, then used fdisk and newfs_msdos to get it in working order again. I've been testing it over the past week and have had no problems since. Thanks for the pointer. Is it accepted for a corrupt filesystem to freeze the system, though? >> [1042] ~ # true > /dev/da0 [...] > > I'd highly recommend running the command in the other direction so you > try to read rather than write. It shouldn't matter, but that makes me > nervous (not that I think it has anything to do with your problem.) I tried that, and doing a read and waiting a few seconds. Opening for write, as above, worked immediately. -- Tim Howe Software Engineer Celebrity Resorts