> 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
>
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>
The same thing happens to me if the termination is removed
from my SCSI bus. I only have two devices on it, a CDROM
and a zip drive. Neither of these is essential, yet when
there is a termination problem, the whole system fries
instead of just getting a SCSI error. Oh well.
Richard G. Roberto
richr@bear.com
201-739-2886 - whippany, nj
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