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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!usenet From: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com (David C. Niemi) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: NetBSD system hang Date: 22 Jun 1993 15:53:55 GMT Organization: GTE Federal Systems Division Lines: 33 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2079uj$1rj@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> References: <206lhe$gmf@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Reply-To: niemidc@oasis.gtefsd.com NNTP-Posting-Host: hengist.lab.oasis.gtegsc.com In article gmf@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk, lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) writes: >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... [snip] >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 had this problem too, but it went away when I turned off my external cache (I have a 486/DX33 with 256KB). I further pinned it down to working if I only used 128 KB but failing if I had 256 KB. I was also getting bus errors, and semi-random crashes in OS/2 and WinDoze. I have a 1990 AMI BIOS and my motherboard maker says I should get a newer version because of my localbus video card, though we'll see if that does it... I have a DTC 2290 EISA hard disk and a Connter CP30254 IDE drive. Does anything in my configuration ring a bell with others having similar problems? The building I was doing was the making of kernels. --- David C. Niemi: David.Niemi@oasis.gtegsc.com My opinions are those of my fuzz-brained, cat-sniffing Norwegian Elkhound.