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From: bachesta@pugsley.Data-IO.COM (Jim Bachesta)
Subject: Re: NetBSD system hang
Message-ID: <1993Jun21.153628.29406@data-io.com>
Sender: bachesta@pugsley (Jim Bachesta)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
References:  <1993Jun18.193505.1315@intellistor.com> <1993Jun21.132233.6983@cs.utwente.nl>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 15:36:28 GMT
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In article <1993Jun21.132233.6983@cs.utwente.nl>, sijben@seine.cs.utwente.nl (Paul Sijben) writes:
|> In article <1993Jun18.193505.1315@intellistor.com>, cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) writes:
|> |> I have just finished installing NetBSD 0.8 on a new system here at
|> |> work, and I have one minor problem with it... Occasionally it hangs
|> |> with the hard disk light on... The only recovery is to reset...
|> |> 
I have a very similar indication on my system. I have ESDI drives. One 140 and
a 380Meg.  Occasionally my wd0 (the 140meg) drive hangs with the drive light 
on. I can continue to type on an xterm window for about 20 char. From than on`
everyting is hosed. I have to reboot to bring it up. I have been assumuning that
I have a bad sector on my swap partition since my swap is on th 140 meg drive.
The only thing is I don't get any errors. 

|> I think it might originate from XFree1.2 so I am going to install version 1.3
|> 
I `m running XFree1.3 and I still get the problem. 


This may be load related but I can pin it down. Has anyone else seen this. Is this
a hardware or software problem. Any help will be appreciated.



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Jim Bachesta 

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