[comp.os.minix] stfloppy.c Was: ST 1.5.10.4: tos.c broken ?

klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) (06/17/91)

In <56411@nigel.ee.udel.edu> K298027%CZHRZU1A@pucc.princeton.edu (Michael Mueller) writes:

>I upgraded succesfully to ST 1.5.10.4 by using stdmp.c instead of dmp.c. I trie
>d then to compile tos.c, which worked fime. But on using it, I got a kernel pan
>ic trap #2. Did someone else encounter the same problem ( I am using c68...)

My experience (with 1.5.10.3) and c68 is that when i compile kernel/stfloppy.c
with c68 and access /dev/fd0 (that is, the variable format floppy) minix
stops with a panic (2,4,14 - pick your choice, depending on the weather).
The panic happens on the device close call.
An ACK compiled stfloppy.c cures this problem. But that is only symptom 
fighting... The real problem stays.

The problem of a kernel panic definitley is not in tos. Its in the kernel!

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