Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 02 Sep 1996 21:05:04 -0400 | From | Russell Berry <> | Subject | Re: patch pre-2.0.17 |
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Peter J. de Vrijer wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Sep 1996, Russell Berry wrote: > > > If you read the ftape docs, you'll see that you CANNOT access the > > floppy while accessing the tape drive. That behavior is kernel > > independent > Ok I admit, I was being stupid. But it should not freeze on me. > It should shout at me 'HEY YOU, YOU CANNOT USE FLOPPY AND FTAPE > AT THE SAME TIME'. Or something like that. > > Peter > > |===========================================================| > | Peter J. de Vrijer e-mail: peter@pa3ebv.ow.nl | > | werk: pj.de.vrijer@chw.nl | > | And perhaps the horse will learn to sing | Now that sounds like a viable option, I did try it once just to see what would happen, you know, "don't touch that button!" type of thing. And sure enough, it locked up the machine. I believe that is a flaw in the design, maybe our kernel wizards, (or ftape/floppy wizards) can implement a more hospitable reaction to such an attempt...
---russ
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