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From: root@buffnet.net (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel panic -- Bug?
Date: 15 Oct 1995 01:01:30 GMT
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Vijay Konkimalla (konki@cerc.wvu.edu) wrote:
: hi,
: I am using FreeBSD 2.0 release and ran into this problem. 

: 1. I mounted the dos partition
: 2. logged on as root
: 3. tried to move a file from dos partition to the unix

: Bang goes the system rebooting again.

: I can understand why this is happening but am not sure if this should
: ever happen?

: Is this a bug in the kernel?

: would appreciate any criticism

: Vijay
: (konki@cerc.wvu.edu)

Have you got a floppy controller based tape drive attached to that 
machine?  What you describe happened when I tried to use such a tape 
driver under 2.0 - but did not happen under 2.0.5