From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I have tried to run fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 and it gets to "68" - I assune that it means "Track 68" and then stops. The whole system locks up and I have to power off and on again. I took the floppy out and formatted it under Win2K and there are no bad sectors. I then put the floppy disk back in the Red Hat floppy drive and copied a couple of files to it and then unmounted it and took the disk to another Red Hat box and read the disk OK. Even if there WAS a problem with the floppy disk or floppy disk drive, I would not expect it to lock the PC. ie Caps lock/Num lock don't work, no other virtual screens available, can't telnet in etc. I removed the floppy and it was still the same. Just LOCKED. I left it for 10 minutes and it was still locked. I had to hit the RESET button to get the system working again. Surely there must be a way of stoping the floppy disk accesss so that the system can be freed up again? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description 2. 3. Additional info:
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