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mounting fd0 without a floppy gives a GPF
29 July 1998
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I found my first GPF in FreeBSD tonight. I was trying to mount a floppy drive so
I could copy files from one system to another, but I forgot to insert the floppy.
Big mistake. First it timed out. Fair enough. There's no floppy there. So I insert the floppy and try again. WOW!
And I could reproduce it. UGLY. I'll track this down sometime and find out what's really going on there. |
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31 July 1998
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| It turns out that this is normal behaviour. The trick is to not remove the floppy before unmounting it. And make sure it's in there before you mount it. |