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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Question for FREEbsd folks Date: 4 Nov 1993 20:19:42 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2bbo4u$fcj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2bbk7h$t67@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pdq.coe.montana.edu In article <2bbk7h$t67@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Alex Tang <altitude@css.itd.umich.edu> wrote: >Hi all. I'm currently running NetBSD-0.8. Overall, I've been very happy with >it. Unfortunately, there are a couple of really nasty bugs that I wanted to >know if FREEBSD (or NetBSD-0.9) fixed. >The second is that sometimes, (about once a week), i get a hard write error on >my ide drive (wd0). and then it just crashes flat out. This was a bigger >problem before I got the scsi drive, because it would get these errors when >writing to swap (with 5 meg, it's pretty often). > >I was wondering if either or both of these bugs have been fixed, and would >make it worthwile for me to move to FREEbsd or NetBSD-0.9. Well, the upgrade to NetBSD 0.9 is worth it for other reasons than these. Making the jump to FreeBSD would probably be pretty drastic, I don't recall any discussions on the lists about this specific problem (if we even knew it was a problem) being fixed. I would suggest you upgrade to 0.9, see what happens. Perhaps you could configure a different primary swap on your machine, (put it on scsi), if there's a known problem with your IDE. I know the NetBSD people have been busy fixing a ton of problems, perhaps yours got picked up in the process as well. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu