kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

[Michael P. Soulier]

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.

Thanks,
Mike
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Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>