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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) Subject: Re: Constant rebooting of hard drive (PLEASE HELP) Message-ID: <1993Mar7.210122.13687@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies References: <C38sIK.nw@acsu.buffalo.edu> <6497@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1993 21:01:22 GMT Lines: 16 In article <6497@krafla.rhi.hi.is> adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David) writes: > >It have also noticed if the message appears "updating disks before reboot" >that most times it just hangs without rebooting. Often the system panics >with trap 12 (which one is that?). > I thought the system was hanging on the 'updating disks', but I found that I wasn't waiting long enough. If I left it alone, it eventually came back, more often than not, with a panic (don't recall if it was the same one you note). I do have to repeat, though, I've not had problems for some time (3 months?). (knock on silicon !;^} ) Dave S.