Re: Killer floppy
On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 09:46:45AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
|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
[snip]
|/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)?
Probably none, except reporting the bug to the kernel people. Did you
happen to have an exotic floppy? I once got a Mac Zip disk and when I
tried to mount it, the kernel segfault.
--
Anthony Wong. [ E-mail: hajime@asunaro.dhs.org / ypwong@debian.org ]
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