On 28/07/07, Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BACKGROUND > Someone brought me a camera they were having trouble with: winXP > refused to mount the file system. I tried it on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, > "mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt", no problems. I recovered all of their > photos. I attempted to "umount /mnt" and encountered an error, > something along the lines of cannot contact device, (I don't remember > exactly. No, I wasn't in the directory I was attempting to umount.). > No other process was communicating with the device, according to the > camera it was 'idle'. I issued a "umount -f /mnt" command. The entire > system locked up for a few seconds (maybe 4) and then CRASH! I found > myself looking at my BIOS output as the system reboots. > > QUESTIONS > 1. Obviously, why did FreeBSD crash? (More specifically what could > cause a crash in this situation?) > 2. How do I find out, why it crashed? > 3. Did I do something terribly unorthodox to invoke this crash, given > the situation? If so, what could be done different? >
The camera powered itself down after being idle for a bit, perhaps? There have been some recent discussions, about physical disconnections of mounted devices causing panics, on this list over the last several weeks. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"