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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!fox From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Odd IDE paging under NetBSD-1.0/XF3.1 - old wd.c bug reborn? Date: 15 Jan 1995 20:31:09 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 39 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3fc0me$jv@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: marge.cs.mcgill.ca Hello, everyone. I'm running NetBSD-1.0 on a 486/66 Micronics VLB with 16 megs, a Western Digital Caviar 340 meg IDE plugged into the builtin IDE controller, and I have a Seagate 3600N 525 meg plugged into an Ultrastor34f VLB controller. The machine is from Gateway 2k. When I run intensive apps (like a large xv histogram equalization (or whatever it is)), the thing starts doing a little paging. The swap space is on the IDE. In the old days, before the illustrious wd.c patch (under 0.9), the drive would sometimes hang, forever timing out (or whatnot) and the disk active light would remain on until reboot. What is happening now is that the light sorta flashes on, waits a sec, then flashes on again, as in: *blink* - *blink* -.... And this continues for a while, and then it finds itself and continues as normal. It is reminiscent of the old timeout problem. Is anyone familiar with this problem? It is quite annoying, since during the blink phase, the machine is effectively locked up (this being an IDE drive)....Is there a patch or some other workaround (short of getting a SCSI replacement)? I'd be grateful for any tips or advice. Regards, Colin. -- fox@cs.mcgill.ca Colin Bradley panic: can't find /