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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!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: 21 Jul 1993 00:30:21 GMT Organization: Montana State University Lines: 22 Message-ID: <22i2mt$r4r@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <22gd69$6j3@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <22helq$qe6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <22hu06$kr@moritz.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <22hu06$kr@moritz.in-berlin.de> berry@moritz.IN-Berlin.DE (Stefan Behrens) writes: > >Removing and touching /dev/drum doesn't change anything at all. I still >can do a ``tar -cf /dev/null /usr2 & tar -cf /dev/null /usr1'' where >/usr1 and /usr2 are nfs-mounted and after a few seconds the controller >will hang... >...and timeout with my code, and will be reset and the request will be >restarted. How big are the packets going to your NFS host? I found that I had to limit the packetsize to 4K with both a 3C503 and a WD80?? board to keep from locking up. 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 :-)