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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: 21 Jul 1993 00:30:21 GMT
Organization: Montana State University
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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


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