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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news.cerf.net!pagesat!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: 0.9 NetBSD hangs Message-ID: <hastyCDAzKt.7L2@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <26tidf$luo@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU> <CD98tt.tw@veda.is> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 17:36:29 GMT Lines: 30 In article <CD98tt.tw@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >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. Okay, I am openning myself to flames :-) I seem to recollect from old wd drivers that there were tight loops with out some sort of retry count limit that in certain cases it would hang the system. Can anyone out there check their wd driver to see if such code still is present in the latest *BSD releases? Thank you, Amancio Hasty -- This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 Amancio Hasty | Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming