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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate 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 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <22helq$qe6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <22gd69$6j3@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu 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 -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)