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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Question for FREEbsd folks
Date: 10 Nov 1993 23:45:34 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In article <2bpc1j$me5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu
(Nate Williams) writes:

   Hmm, Charles I've never seen a bug report from you on that issue,
   [...]

It's been reported numerous times.  Why should I bother?

   FYI - I've never heard of nor seen any bug reports from anyone with
   a hard disk lite disk hang on any FreeBSD SCSI system.

It happens (or at least used to) when an interrupt is missed.  Perhaps
the latest SCSI code has fixed it; perhaps not.  I haven't checked.