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Subject: Probelm of dd with a protected floppy disk
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>Number:         14736
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Probelm of dd with a protected floppy disk
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov  5 22:10:01 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Sat Nov 6 02:22:54 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sat Nov  6 02:23:33 PST 1999
>Originator:     Yoshihiro Ota
>Release:        Release 3.2
>Organization:
Drexel University
>Environment:
FreeBSD earth.advok.com 3.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #9: Thu Oct  7 22:27:15
EDT 1999     root@earth.advok.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/MyKernel  i386
>Description:
When dd tries to wrote to a protected floppy, the system crashes.

>How-To-Repeat:
Normal operation with a write-protected floppy:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 6 02:22:54 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
You should have used the raw device: /dev/rfd0. 
The underlying problem is well documented in other PRs. 
>Unformatted:
