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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!amdahl!agc From: agc@uts.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Sorry, I lost the 'drive light on and locked' patch. Message-ID: <84HI0309d7F300@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> Date: 28 Jul 93 14:19:34 GMT References: <22hu06$kr@moritz.in-berlin.de> <22jja0$b1@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <22oqk1$8f@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 52 In article <22oqk1$8f@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes: >In article <22jja0$b1@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> I said: >> >>Bad news; it doesn't work for me either. All I needed to do was start >>up gcc2 in the /usr/src/bin/sh directory (running from make in /usr/src) >> and it would fail within seconds. >> >>Theo Deraadt suggested I turn on the WDCDELAY debug flag. It is showing >>6200 millisecs for reset time (CONSISTENTLY). By my calculations, that >>is about six seconds. >> >>The odd part there is that it will report one of these every second. >> >>Color me confused. >> > >All right... > >I made Theo's suggested change. > >It made the problem go away for about three days. Once my confidence >was up, I started trying to get the system back up to date. > >Something in gcc2 triggers the bug. It is getting to the point that I >can't even build a new kernel to fix this persistent problem. Oh well. >Another thing that seems to trigger the bug is writing a core.* file. >The multirecord write problem seems to be the culprit. It is certainly >a problem with timing. > >The 6 second time-out once a second still has me puzzled, and I suspect >that is ALSO part of the problem. A few questions, posted on my wife's behalf, so that she feels safe to talk to me again: 1. Has anyone got an update to this problem which I didn't have on a 386SX/16, but is only too obvious on a 486DX2/66? 2. Is it only 386BSD, or does NetBSD have this problem as well? 3. And does anyone have a WDCDELAY-patched kernel I can ftp from somewhere? 4. Isn't this the same problem as the "can't build GENERICISA" thread? Anyone? Alistair -- Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) +44 252 346377 Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK. [These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]