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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!boyd From: boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) Subject: Re: 386bsd: trouble copying large directories from IDE to SCSI Originator: boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com Message-ID: <C8rtHI.w16@austin.ibm.com> Sender: boyd@austin.ibm.com () Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 14:56:06 GMT Reply-To: boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com References: <C8MJvK.3HoF@austin.ibm.com> <BLYMN.93Jun17201246@mallee.awadi.com.au> Organization: IBM Austin Lines: 38 In article <BLYMN.93Jun17201246@mallee.awadi.com.au>, blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: > >>>>> On Mon, 14 Jun 1993 18:40:32 GMT, boyd@austin.ibm.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) said: > Boyd> Originator: boyd@pal411.austin.ibm.com > > Boyd> It starts cranking and eventually the IDE drive light goes on solid and disk > Boyd> activity stops. If I hit enter the screen scrolls but that is about it. > > Ummmm I *think* I might have fixed this one already. I had the same > problem except I had an ESDI drive, the patchkit seemed to exacerbate > the problem. I thought that a later patchkit contained my patch to > fix this but I am not sure now. What I found was that sometimes the > controller and the hard-disk seem to get out of sync with each other > and the controller thinks the disk is always busy when it is not. I > added code to the wait loops in the driver to timeout the wait and > reset the controller if this occurred. If you cannot find the patch > (I think is was on agate somewhere) then send me a mail message and I > will forward a copy to you. > > -- > Brett Lymn Actually, I got bitten by the not-properly-terminated bug. Ouch! I have noticed interesting behavior with rm -fr on ide in that you cannot background it with ^Z. I didn't notice any problem on the scsi (once I terminated it (with extreme prejudice)). Anyway, thanks for your help. Boyd PS. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of pstat for 386bsd? I heard someone mention it one day. Is it in the NetBSD distribution and will it still work under 386bsd? Thanks again, Boyd I do not speak for IBM and vice-versa.