I've heard something about a problem w/ KDE and floppy drive access. Try
copying files via Bash or something of that sort.
>From: David Sansome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Cooker] Beta 4 VERY Hard Lockup on floppy copy - YIKES!!
>Date: 05 Sep 2002 20:23:57 +0100
>
>On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 05:15, kim marshall wrote:
> > Twice now I have managed to Lock my computer up hard. Very Hard.
>Keyboard is locked. Both the Caps Lock and Scroll
> > Lock lights are flashing continuously The mouse is dead and I cannot
>function key or escape to another log in. The
> > only alternative that I have found is a computer reset. As I say this
>has happen twice. I think the same scenario
> > caused both except the first occurred almost two nights ago when I was
>very focused on a completely different and
> > unrelated problem with a different computer (Windows actually). The
>second just occurred and I remember it with very
> > good detail.
> >
> > I was trying to copy a file from my hard drive (FAT32 C drive partition)
>to a FAT floppy so that I could solve this
> > problem on the WIN machine. What I did was to drag the file in
>Konqueror from the files list on the right onto the
> > /mnt/floppy icon in the directory tree at the left. In both cases the
>copy procedure started as though it was going to
> > function correctly and then soon after the copy progress dialogue popped
>up the system Hung Hard!! Of course Linux
> > fsked the drives on reboot and I do not think there is any real damage.
>Thank God for a journalizing filling system.
>
>Exactly the same thing happened to me. I was also copying a file from
>hard drive to floppy with Konqueror. After the crash, it seemed to work
>fine using cp in a console...
>I think the flashing keyboard lights indicates a kernel crash... can
>anybody confirm?
>
>David Sansome
--- Lauber
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