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From: gene@stark.uucp (Gene Stark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD]panic:wdir:compact1
Date: 7 Feb 93 08:52:46
Organization: Gene Stark's home system
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In-reply-to: vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br's message of 6 Feb 1993 13:39:02 -0600

Pedro A.M. Vazquez writes:

>Other problem: I was extracting some files with tar from /dev/fd1a, 
>then decide to save other files with tar to /dev/fd0a. 
>Result: (1) The light on fd0a turned on, (2) /dev/fd1a stoped, (3)the
>keyboard hung. I've repeated this sequence and allways needed to reset
>the box. Is there any problem acessing both floppies at the same time?

Yes, I have had this problem, and have simply avoided it up until now.
I haven't tried it since installing patchkit 0.2, but I suspect the same
thing will probably still happen.

							- Gene Stark
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							stark@cs.sunysb.edu