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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!email.tuwien.ac.at!ntkupc1.tuwien.ac.at!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <27ca9v$5j@ntkupc1.tuwien.ac.at> References: <2C992C39.17182@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ntkupc1.tuwien.ac.at 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