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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Kernel panics
Date: 8 Jul 1993 08:27:41 -0500
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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Message-ID: <21h7cr$m2i@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
References: <21gh5j$rsa@news.cs.tu-berlin.de}
NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil
Keywords: BUG VM KERNEL MOUNT

In article <21gh5j$rsa@news.cs.tu-berlin.de} klier@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan Klier) writes:
}  The problem occurs when you try to mount a dos floppy with
}
}      mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0a /mnt
}
}  without a floppy being in the drive. This operation aborts with an i/o
}error message, just as one would expect that.
}
}  But if you then insert a dos floppy and repeat the command, the kernel
}panics with the following message:
}
}  kernel panic: trap 12
}
}  vm_fault(fe34c400,53e58000,1,0) -} 1
}
}

The same thing happens if a disk is inserted but not formatted as a DOS 
floppy...
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TSgt Dave Burgess
NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office
Brooks AFB, TX