kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:32:42PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm reading "BSD Hacks" by Dru Lavigne, published by O'Reilly. In the
> section on managing floppies, it mentions that if you pull a floppy
> without umounting it first, the next time to try to access the
> filesystem, you'll get a kernel panic.
> 
> Is this true? If so, it would be the very first Unix that I've seen
> crash from this kind of user-mistake.

Turns out it's pretty hard to fix.

Kris
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