kernel panic because I pulled a floppy?

[Martin Tournoy]

It happens, I've experienced quite some problems with floppy's and
FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0

anyway, if you mount a floppy, pull it out and unmount it the kernel
might panic, if the floppy if reading writing and you pull it out the
kernel might panic, if you mount a floppy which is damaged or has a
damaged filesystem the kernel might panic

I think i've only seen FreeBSD crach about six times in the year I'm
using it, all of those were with floppy problems...

My advice:
Save all your work before you do anything with a floppy
Don't do anything with a floppy on critical machines
Think before you act when working with a floppy

It sucks, I know, I always use a windows machine when I need to write
or read something on a floppy.
Using windows instead of freebsd because it's better at something. . .
. . . . scary. . .

On 05/12/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:37:23AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 12/4/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Well, all I know is that it does happen on Linux, Solaris... I don't
> > recall seeing it on HP-UX...
> >
> > I've popped floppies on those OSs before without incident when I went
> > back to the directory. Luckily it's avoidable, just a little
> > disappointing given FreeBSD's rock-solid reputation.
>
> OK.
>
> Kris
>
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