From: joel@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: ``Reset-floppy called'' killed my system (0.99.8) Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 04:19:50 GMT
[Who wrote what deleted]
>If those error message won't stop after pulling out the disk you might have to kill
>the process still trying or reading from the devide. Perhaps a ^C will work, but
>probably you'll have to do a #ps -ax to see what's going on.
>One problem might be the different floppy drives. Although this isn't a very
>good solution, you might have to throw out the Compaq drive and buy a new
>one. I never had trouble with TEAC drives, but SONY drives are *always* calibrated
>a bit different.
The problem is that kill doesn't work, at least not for me. I usually
try just "kill" first, then a few "kill -9"'s and nothing helps. I
understand that this is common, standard behavior for processes doing
what these are doing (I forget the details -- I think it has to do
with the system calls or something), but at any rate the processes are
un-killable.
-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)
--
=============================================================================
|_|~~ Germany, 1943. ``A little garden, fragrant and full of roses.
__|~| 16 Million DEAD. The path is narrow, and a little boy walks along it.
A little boy, a sweet boy, like that growing blossom,
cnc Bosnia, 1993. When the blossom comes to bloom,
cnc HOW MANY MORE? The little boy will be no more.''
- Franta Bass,
killed at age 14 by the Nazis
=============================================================================
Tell Clinton to stop the genocide: president@whitehouse.gov