>Number:         5825
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Lockups while writing floppy
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 23 12:20:00 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Jones
>Organization:
Center for Computational Biology, Montana State University
>Release:        July 19, 1998
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD hideo 1.3F NetBSD 1.3F (HIDEO) #3: Mon Jul 20 15:17:56 MDT 1998 root@hideo:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/HIDEO i386


>Description:
While running dd to a floppy on one console, if I do much of anything
else on another console, the machine locks hard.  No keyboard input,
no keyclick (I have an annoying keyboard which always clicks when I
hit keys), the floppy drive light stays on, but it doesn't make the
cylinder-switch noise.

>How-To-Repeat:
ttyE0: "dd if=boot.fs of=/dev/fd0a"

ttyE8: Login and telnet to another machine.  It usually locks before I
get the prompt.

>Fix:
workaround: Don't do anything else while it's writing to floppy.  It
successfully writes the floppy, and the system is usable afterwards.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: