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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Eric Berenguier <Eric.Berenguier@sycomore.fr>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help! Floppy drive problem: crash the computer !
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960729205316.320H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <v01530506ae22595778ba@[192.134.92.34]>

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On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Eric Berenguier wrote:

>         I'm using FreeBSD Release 2.1.0, and i have problems with my floppy
> drive. When i read or write to a disk, i get a lot of error messages (log
> follows) and sometimes it crashes the computer during writes (computer hang,
> or panic+reboot). I've no problem with dos with the same disks (i've checked
> this with many disks)

Ouch.  Have you checked your floppy drive cable, drive, and controller?
Wow, it must be nasty if it panics the system.  :(

> if it panics during a write:
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address = 0x29000000
> fault code            = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xf016e6bb
> code segment          = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                       = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1,gran 1
> processor eflags      = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
> current process       = 205 (cp)
> interrupt mask        = net tty bio
> panic: page fault
> 
> syncing disks ... 25 25 25 25 25 (a lot of these) 25 25 giving up
> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds, etc....

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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