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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD system hang
Date: 29 Jun 1993 21:01:06 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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Message-ID: <BLYMN.93Jun29150106@mallee.awadi.com.au>
References: <1993Jun18.193505.1315@intellistor.com> <1993Jun21.132233.6983@cs.utwente.nl>
	<1993Jun21.153628.29406@data-io.com> <206lhe$gmf@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: lessen@axion.bt.co.uk's message of 22 Jun 1993 10:05:34 GMT

>>>>> On 22 Jun 1993 10:05:34 GMT, lessen@axion.bt.co.uk (Lee Essen) said:
Lee> NNTP-Posting-Host: nice.axion.bt.co.uk

Lee> In article <1993Jun21.153628.29406@data-io.com>, bachesta@pugsley.Data-IO.COM (Jim Bachesta) writes:
Lee> |> In article <1993Jun21.132233.6983@cs.utwente.nl>, sijben@seine.cs.utwente.nl (Paul Sijben) writes:
Lee> |> |> In article <1993Jun18.193505.1315@intellistor.com>, cwolff@intellistor.com (Clint Wolff) writes:
Lee> |> |> |> I have just finished installing NetBSD 0.8 on a new system here at
Lee> |> |> |> work, and I have one minor problem with it... Occasionally it hangs
Lee> |> |> |> with the hard disk light on... The only recovery is to reset...
Lee> |> |> |> 

Lee> This has been discussed before, it's actually a bug in the wd driver that usually
Lee> occurs during heavy disk activity (the whatis db build is a famous example), 
Lee> although i've seen it at other times.

Lee> I'm not sure what progress has been made on this????

As far as I know it is fixed.  I posted a patch for this a while ago,
mailed a copy to the patchkit maintainer and have just mailed a copy
to cgd which, hopefully, will be folded into a release of NetBSD.

--
Brett Lymn