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From: martin@ntkupc1.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Birgmeier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: dd from floppy causes vm fault in FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA
Date: 17 Sep 1993 14:24:31 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Comm. Engr., Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria
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Message-ID: <27ca9v$5j@ntkupc1.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <2C992C39.17182@news.service.uci.edu>
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Keywords: panic trap vm_fault FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA

In article <2C992C39.17182@news.service.uci.edu>,  <bob@beamlab> wrote:
[...]
>Is there a problem with the floppy drivers
>in FreeBSD? Trying to copy a DOS diskette
>using:
>
>dd if=/dev/fd1a of=./whatever
[...]
>The machine reported some sort of virtual
>memory fault, tried to make a crash dump
>and reported a failure, then stuck tight.
>
>Floppy control is from a 1542b, which worked
>splendidly under 386bsd-0.1
[...]

Same here, although I have this problem with both 386bsd-0.1.2.4 and
FreeBSD. But I have a vague idea that maybe this might have started to
happen since I switched from a 3c503 ethernet card to a WD8013EPC
(I had the if_ed ether driver in my 386bsd kernel). When I find the time
I might try and see if changing back to a 3c503 make things better. But
again, this is just a very wild guess...

Martin

P.S. I can't even fsck my floppies...
-- 
Martin Birgmeier
Technical University of Vienna                      mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at