On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> Suppose you have a *write-protected* DOS floppy and you do:
>
> # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy <-- this is OK
>
> # cp somefile /floppy <-- a lot of error messages
>
> # umount /floppy <-- crash
>
> Now the system tries to sync the dirty buffers and fails. You have to
> press a key to reboot.
>
> Is there anything wrong here or FreeBSD simply does not handle this in a
> more elegant way?
>
> Thanks for any help.
I had this happen to me the other day on my 3.2 system. I thought it was
just me because I had mounted the disk several days before and figured I
had swapped it out. I also had to reformat the floppy on a Win95 system
to make it usable again.
Jamie
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