It happens, I've experienced quite some problems with floppy's and
FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0
anyway, if you mount a floppy, pull it out and unmount it the kernel
might panic, if the floppy if reading writing and you pull it out the
kernel might panic, if you mount a floppy which is damaged or has a
Don't top-post, please.
Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My advice:
Save all your work before you do anything with a floppy
Don't do anything with a floppy on critical machines
Think before you act when working with a floppy
Using the mtools port is a lot easier. It uses the
mtools, hmm, might want to check that one out
Ok, stupid question perhaps, but what is top-posting, I'm new to the
whole mailling list stuff, so if you can explain a bit I won't do it
anymore
On 06 Dec 2005 10:12:40 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't top-post, please.
On 2005-12-06 15:19, Martin Tournoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, stupid question perhaps, but what is top-posting, I'm new to the
whole mailling list stuff, so if you can explain a bit I won't do it
anymore
On 06 Dec 2005 10:12:40 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't
On 12/5/05, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/4/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
crash from this kind of user-mistake.
Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.
Well, all I know is that it does
On 12/4/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
crash from this kind of user-mistake.
Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.
Well, all I know is that it does happen on Linux, Solaris... I don't
recall seeing it on HP-UX...
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:37:23AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 12/4/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
crash from this kind of user-mistake.
Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.
Well, all I know is that
Hey all,
I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
Is this true? If so, it would be the very first
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
Is this true? If so, it
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Hey all,
I'm reading BSD Hacks by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
filesystem,
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