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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!utciva.civ.utwente.nl!infnews!seine.cs.utwente.nl!sijben From: sijben@seine.cs.utwente.nl (Paul Sijben) Subject: Re: Those NetBSD hard-drive hangs... Message-ID: <1993Jul9.090546.23934@cs.utwente.nl> Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: seine.cs.utwente.nl Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science References: <9319017.15979@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 09:05:46 GMT Lines: 37 In article <9319017.15979@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes: |> I, too, had problems with NetBSD 0.8 hanging with the hard-drive light on. |> On advice I spotted in the .bugs group earlier (which I recall being |> "authoritative", although I can't remember who it was) I removed the |> /dev/drum device driver, and replaced it with a plain file (i.e. "touch |> /dev/drum"). I haven't had the problem since (and the system has had a few |> workouts compiling various things, including a couple of kernels). |> it did not work for me. It went ok for a while but yesterday I had this hang-up again |> So, basically I'm happy with this as a workaround, but I'm curious to know |> *why* it works, and what other effects it may have. I don't really |> understand the details of the way paging works, so I don't know what |> /dev/drum is usually used for. I have the general impression that NetBSD |> is more "chatty" than 386bsd was (i.e. there seems to be more disk activity |> when "nothing" is happening), and it seems a little slower on some filing |> system accesses, but I don't know if there is any relationship between any |> of these things. |> |> Mark. |> -------------------------------------------------------- |> Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory |> Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne |> ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au] |> -------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________ Paul Sijben internet : sijben@cs.utwente.nl Twente University computer science department, pegasus project group telephone (at working hours) +31-53-893795 homeaddress : Booggang 25, Hengelo telephone : 074-918041 (home) "Het is opvallend dat politici nooit het woord 'mensen' gebruiken als ze het over jongeren hebben"