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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wli@holomorphy.com
Subject: Re: [BUG] floppy requests
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:33:57 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206221033.MAA15741@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:04:17 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>So I ran grub to try to install it on a disk to boot elsewhere. Lo
>and behold, the legendary robustness of floppy handling bursts forth:
>
>On 2.5.24
>
>Cheers,
>Bill
>
>generic_make_request: Trying to access nonexistent block-device fd(2,0) (0)
>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000a0

Search the LKML archives, keyword floppy.
Floppies work in raw mode with a patch, but FS access to mounted
floppies will hang your kernel or destroy data.

             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-22 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-22 10:33 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2002-06-22 14:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-21 23:04 William Lee Irwin III
2002-06-21 23:09 ` William Lee Irwin III

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