Killer floppy

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

I appear to have a floppy that is destructive to my system. When I try to
mount it, I get the following:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d0c2af14
current->tss.cr3 = 00fbc000, %cr3 = 00fbc000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<0015f359>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 10c2af10   ebx: 00000010   ecx: 00003a00   edx: 021e5218
esi: 001c387c   edi: 02373000   ebp: 10c2af10   esp: 00fbde3c
ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
Process mount (pid: 191, process nr: 28, stackpage=00fbd000)
Stack: 001c387c 00000200 001aafd8 08050200 001bafd8 00000030 00000000
002b4f00
       002bfe98 002b4f00 002bfe98 00000006 021e3001 002bfe98 00000001
00000000
       00002074 021e5218 00000000 00000200 00000000 00000006 002b88d4
0000ef32
Call Trace: [<0012c196>] [<0012c204>] [<0012c3e7>] [<00161033>]
[<00128a29>] [<00128e6b>] [<001293a0>]
       [<0010ab25>]
Code: 8b 4d 04 81 f9 72 72 41 61 74 10 51 68 8f 9a 19 00 e8 9d 52
/usr/local/bin/qm: line 4:   191 Segmentation fault      mount -t msdos
/dev/fd0 /floppy

At this point, until I reboot, I have lost the floppy drive. If I try to
unmount it, I am told it is busy. If I try to mount it, I am told no such
device on /dev/fd0.

Any idea of how to protect from this occurance (aside from throwing the
floppy away)?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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