Subject: Re: closing bin/5863, accessing fd locks the machine
To: Eric Schnoebelen <eric@cirr.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/31/2002 11:25:43
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 03:43:11PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
  | - > Someone please check this out?
  | - > 
  | - > http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=5863
  | - 
  | - With NetBSD-1.5.2 in a SPARCstation 2 it hangs for a while but the machine
  | - is still responsive to other processes and it times out after a few
  | - seconds with an error. 'eject /dev/fd0a' with an empty drive behaves in
  | - the same manner. Reasonable behavior I think.
  | 
  | 	I just tried ``eject floppy'' on a SPARCclassic running
  | 1.5.3_RC2, and perceived a small hang, followed by ``fd0:  no medium?''
  | on the console.  Same results when trying ``eject /dev/fd0a''.
  | 
  | 	No hangs, so I'd say everything is now reasonable.


I've closed the PR.

Luke.