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From: peter@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Peter deFriesse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: FreeBSD-1.1-GAMMA I/O prob
Date: 28 Apr 1994 15:02:35 -0400
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Message-ID: <2pp18bINNod6@twain.ucs.umass.edu>
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Hello all,

  I have upgraded from 1.0.2 to 1.1 and come across a strange problem.

  When starting an I/O operation, The system will _sometimes_ hang
for a short time.  For example, I start a download and hear the disk
seek.  The system stops (actually, I can de/iconify windows) for as
long as ten seconds, than I hear the disk seek again and all is well.
None of this happened at 1.0.2/

  Have searched the logs and so on, and I have not a clue.  Any help?

System configuration:

 VL/EISA-486SV1 50DX motherboard W/16 meg onboard
 Award BIOS Ver. 4.00
 Buslogic 747s Rev. 4.70 host adapter
 Mach32 videoboard
 2-com ports, 1 parallel port
 Fujitsu 2694ES 1-GIG SCSI disk
 Logitech Mouseman
 System configured with 386bsdGENERICBT kernel

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