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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!wupost!uunet!pipex!uknet!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: wd stops on update Date: 18 May 1993 10:58:26 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1tafgi$5s7@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jammy.axion.bt.co.uk This is a bit of a strange problem! At completely random times, luckily with a large MTBF, my wd light comes on and stays on and no more disk access is permitted, the processes just block! It appears that the problem occurs when 'update' sync's the drive, when I reboot the filesystems are always clean (thank god!) This was really annoying yesterday when I set my machine up at home for slip and dialed in from work, after a couple of hours a couldn't start up telnet or ftp, but ping worked fine. When I got home, I found the hard disk light on. This is a real pain, has anyone seen this, any solutions? Lee