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From: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 15:15:18 GMT
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Reply-To: nora@eeubln.IN-Berlin.DE (Nora E. Etukudo)
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Subject: Re: fd0 driver reboots machine
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in article <2rf43j$rb8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
from 19 May 1994 07:22:27 GMT,
klier@cs.tu-berlin.de also known as "Jan Klier", wrote [shortend]:
[...]
k@c: "I had this problem this morning when I tried to write a tar archive to"
k@c: "fd0. By mistake I inserted a fresh and unformatted floppy into the drive."
k@c: "The result was that the fd0 driver bombed me with fatal error messages."
k@c: ""
k@c: "So far not much of a problem. But I was unable to stop the driver from"
k@c: "trying to write. Killing the tar process didn't help, because the "
k@c: "write call wasn't interruptable. "
[...]
Hello.
You did'nt mention, on what OS and Version you're going on.
BTW: I've a very similar error with ISC UNIX 4.0 and the driver
for 3,5" floppies (not for the 5,25" ones). Here, the driver
writes for ever on an unformatted disk.
Greetings, Nora.
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