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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: Sorry, I lost the 'drive light on and locked' patch. Message-ID: <michaelv.743215109@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <22gd69$6j3@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <22helq$qe6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 00:38:29 GMT Lines: 24 In <22helq$qe6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >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*) Yes, but is this truly a good fix for those of us who run with multiple swap partitions (multiple drives)? Or is this just the cheap and dirty hack it appears to be, and should only be tried until the problem really gets fixed properly? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------