Re: How could a dud floppy crash linux?

From: P.T. Breuer (ptb_at_oboe.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:44:33 +0100

Anthony Campbell <me@privacy.net> wrote:
> I've had a bunch of badly formatted floppies that sometimes fail to
> write or read. Yesterday I used one of these via mcopy and it appeared
> to cause linux to reboot. How could it have done this?

Ask the floppy driver author. He's listed in the MAINTAINERS file.

Any driver expects certain behavior of its hardware. When the hardware
deviates from that behavior, the driver can get into a state that
nobody has thought about, and do things that nobody has thought of.
Looking in your kernel log would tell you everything you should tell
us.

Peter

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