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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
