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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 0.9 NetBSD hangs
Message-ID: <CD98tt.tw@veda.is>
Date: 12 Sep 93 19:00:50 GMT
References: <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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marty@TC.Cornell.EDU (Marty Faltesek) writes:

>With 0.9 NetBSD, every day or so, the machine hangs after
>executing an arbitrary command.   I have a 386DX-33 with
>X running, and 8 megs.  

>The disk drive light remains on.  I have no idea how to track
>this down.  Is there any way to jump into a kernel debugger? 

If you have any disks using the wd driver, this is a known problem.
The only 100% solution at present is to keep trying disks and controllers
until you find a combination that doesn't cause this problem to manifest,
or switch entirely over to scsi.

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adam@veda.is