Re: UMASS: fatal trap while unplugging floppy drive

From: Antony T Curtis <antony.t.curtis_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:08:03 +0100
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:48, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Antony T Curtis wrote this message on Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 11:34 +0100:
> > I cvsupped this morning and rebuilt world and kernel...
> > 
> > When I unplug the USB floppy drive, I get the following
> 
> Did you have the filesystem mounted?  Right now USB is not at all safe
> for hot plugging.  If the recent move to GEOM, it may make unplugging
> devices even more dangerous.  You might try ejecting the media through
> camcontrol before unplugging the drive.  (or even physically ejecting it)

The filesystem was not mounted - I used mtools to examine the disk.

Plugging in seemed to work fine. I just cannot unplug.

> patches welcome! :)

I'll probably take a peek...

-- 
Antony T Curtis BSc     Unix Analyst Programmer
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/antony.t.curtis/

Received on Sun Sep 28 2003 - 02:15:25 UTC

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