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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Sorry, I lost the 'drive light on and locked' patch.
Date: 20 Jul 1993 18:48:26 GMT
Organization: Montana State University
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In article <22gd69$6j3@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
>
>There was some discussion about three weeks ago about the system hang
>where the hard drive locks up with the the drive light lit.  Someone,
>whose name I have regretfully forgotten, posted either a description of
>a change that (s)he had made to the system that reset the drive.

rm /dev/drum
touch /dev/drum

(Maybe this should go in the FAQ. *grin*)



Nate

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