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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!math.fu-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de!kuku From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: dd from floppy causes vm fault in FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA Date: 17 Sep 1993 16:55:32 GMT Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <27cq64$akv@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <2C992C39.17182@news.service.uci.edu> Reply-To: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de NNTP-Posting-Host: acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Keywords: panic trap vm_fault FreeBSD-1.0-GAMMA >Hello all, >Is there a problem with the floppy drivers >in FreeBSD? Trying to copy a DOS diskette >using: >dd if=/dev/fd1a of=./whatever >with a disk in the drive got me a most >amusing response. >The machine reported some sort of virtual >memory fault, tried to make a crash dump >and reported a failure, then stuck tight. I had them too. Booting the floppies worked okay, but later, after booting from the hard disk the first time the floppies (fd0) are not recognized by the autoconfigure code. Sometimes I had success when actually removing the floppy from the drive or powering off/on the system. There still are some quirks in the fd driver. >Floppy control is from a 1542b, which worked >splendidly under 386bsd-0.1 >thanks for reading >bo -- --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph P. U. Kukulies | kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------