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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk!lessen From: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NetBSD system hang Date: 22 Jun 1993 10:05:34 GMT Organization: BT Laboratories Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <206lhe$gmf@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> References: <1993Jun18.193505.1315@intellistor.com> <1993Jun21.132233.6983@cs.utwente.nl> <1993Jun21.153628.29406@data-io.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nice.axion.bt.co.uk In article <1993Jun21.153628.29406@data-io.com>, bachesta@pugsley.Data-IO.COM (Jim Bachesta) writes: |> 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. |> This has been discussed before, it's actually a bug in the wd driver that usually occurs during heavy disk activity (the whatis db build is a famous example), although i've seen it at other times. I'm not sure what progress has been made on this???? Lee.