Re: Write-protected floppy crash

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From
David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Date
6 Jun 2000 13:28:46
Subject
Re: Write-protected floppy crash
Message-ID
Pine.NEB.3.96.1000606152501.59592A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Matthew Dillon wrote:

::Does it make a difference that this happens when you dd to the device,
::without going through a filesystem layer? I don't ever use filesystems on
::floppies, and have had this crash.
::
::David Scheidt
:
: Hmm. It shouldn't happen if you dd. If it does then the bug is
: probably cockpit trouble somewhere -- should be easy to fix.
:

It no longer happens with dd or tar. This is with a -CURRENT as of last
night. I know it used to, though, because I ran into it making boot disks.
I'm not a big user of floppy disks -- only one of my machines has a drive --
so I don't know when the dd part of it got fixed.


David



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