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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [FreeBSD] - kernal hangs on disk wait Date: 7 Jan 1995 16:42:43 GMT Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3emga3$rb8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <3eh9qa$1ie@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Just wanted to repost this, as while the cache problem earlier reported seems to be all in hardware, the machine hanging randomly when I try to do anything reasonably intense sucks bigtime, and is certainly a FreeBSD software problem. Please help! I don't really have my machine set up to do kernal debugging, and I know that this has been fixed in the past. Thanks in advance. ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) writes: > >1) During periods of intense CPU and disk I/O (like a compile), the machine >randomly hangs. Back before 1.1, this was due to an interrupt timing problem >in wd.c for the IDE controller. The kernal would somehow miss the drive's "I'm >done" flag, and sit there waiting for it forever. However, this was fixed for >1.1+ - at least the upgrade cured the problem on my system. However, the new >clock speed on my new board seems to have brought out the problem again. Does >anybody have a patch that really fixes this? Can I grab the latest wd.c from >./current and stand any chance of it working properly with v1.1.5? Help! -- Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu http://astrowww.astro.indiana.edu/personnel/ahabig/ Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.