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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam 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 Lines: 16 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. -- adam@veda.is