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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!carroll1.cc.edu!carroll1.cc.edu!not-for-mail From: sander@carroll1.cc.edu (Scott B. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: wd.c driver problems. Date: 11 Oct 1993 19:43:41 -0500 Organization: The Carroll College poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <29cujt$mje@carroll1.cc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: carroll1.cc.edu Summary: The blatant hard drive driver problem is unnacceptable. Keywords: locking up system This is the 3rd time I've posted about this problem and I still have yet to see either a reply or a followup. I have a 486dx33 running NetBSD 0.9. The wd.c driver is obviously not working coerrectly and I get the hard drive hung about once a day. (the access light just goes on and the system stops dead) Is there a patch for this? (I should hope so) This exact thing was supposedly taken care of in the 0.8 to 0.9 upgrade. (according to the upgrade bug fix report) I would like to keep running NetBSD because of the dynamic pty allocation in the kernel, which allows me to have lots of screens, telnets, and xterms running at once. Also, I've had 3 cases of the "w" command panic ing the kernel. Any suggestions? Is NetBSD current stable enough now to use sup again, or will I be unable to compile kernels if I start it up like last time? Scott