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- From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
- Subject: Help! Linux 0.98 crashes when accessing MFM disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.095654.11884@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Keywords: crash mfm
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 09:56:54 GMT
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- On my computer linux crashes when accessing floppy disk
- and hard disk (mfm, western digital controller) at the
- same time. It seems to happen when one of both accesses
- is caused by a sync. This is somewhat annoying since I
- had to re-install the damaged file system already three
- times!
-
- I used to kill the update process before accessing floppies
- but since I updated to pl 4, the ps program does not work
- any more (not even after ps -U) and I did not yet succeed
- in recompiling ps either. Yet the bug is still there in pl 4
- and now my filesystem is again gone.
-
- Is there any known problem in the handler of mfm hard disks?
- Or maybe even a patch available somewhere?
-
- Klaus Hartnegg
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