Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Travis Cole
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: 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

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Iani Brankov
David Scheidt wrote: [snip] I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs I know that's not the right mail list, but i feel (not sure) the fdc driver has probems

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Travis Cole
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: 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

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Travis Cole wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:30:05PM -0400, Jamie Howard wrote: On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: I just reproduced this on a system running 4.0-CURRENT from about Sun Jun 27 01:12:42 PDT I got a ton of these errors in dmesg and

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread Iani Brankov
David Scheidt wrote: [snip] I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs I know that's not the right mail list, but i feel (not sure) the fdc driver has probems

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-29 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Scheidt wrote: I can do this from -CURRENT from whenever CTM broke. I have a panic, and a dump which i havne't had time to look at. The panic string is panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs David And the dump showsnothing: rally3# gdb -k GNU gdb 4.18 Copyright

A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-28 Thread Zhihui Zhang
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

A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-28 Thread Zhihui Zhang
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

Re: A way to crash system (3.1 3.2) with floppy

1999-06-28 Thread Jamie Howard
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