Hallo Joe, thank you for your hint. On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 12:08:00PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:28, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I need some help with bug #130805. The bug submitter's > > Sony Vaio laptop crashed on some command. Details are at > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/130805 > > > > As I do not own such a machine I cannot do much about this. > > So my request is: could anybody with a Sony Vaio laptop try > > the following: > > > > 1) Install the fdutils package > > 2) Remove the floppy drive > > 3) Prepare for a possible crash (save all open > > files, execute 'sync', ...) > > 4) Run the command "/usr/sbin/MAKEFLOPPIES -g" > > I don't have a USB floppy drive so I can't test this, Actually you can. The problem occurs when no floppy drive is attached. Do you think the USB hard locks could occur nevertheless? I would be glad if you could try the MAKEFLOPPIES call as described above. Jochen -- Omm (0)-(0) http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/privat.html
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