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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!cdsi From: cdsi@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Fort Sill Account) Subject: hard disk lockup Message-ID: <1993Jul2.162152.14856@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Summary: Hard disk light stayed lit, console driver worked, nothing executed Keywords: hard disk lockup NetBSD Sender: cdsi@titan.std.arlut.utexas.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pelican Organization: Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin References: <1993Jul2.120207.3262@gmd.de> <1993Jul2.135051.4848@cs.utwente.nl> <1993Jul2.152401.2726@ucc.su.OZ.AU> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1993 16:21:52 GMT Lines: 17 I am running NetBSD with no patches applied. I have the syscons driver loaded with 12 screens defined. This works fine. I came home one night from work and found the hard disk light was staying lit (from the controller card), the screen would accept and echo characters and I could switch console windows, but nothing was running--I would get no response to anything typed. The shell wouldn't even come back with a prompt. I have an IDE NEC 100mb drive which is brand new. I leave my system on 24 hours a day. Is this a known bug? I did a hard reset and it came back up fine. Please email any information you think might be helpful to me. Kevin Johnson cdsi@titan.std.arlut.utexas.edu johnsonk@holonet.net kevin@lawton.lonestar.org