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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sifon!fox From: fox@cs.mcgill.ca (Colin BRADLEY) Subject: DISK LIGHT HANG !#@*&!!! Message-ID: <1993Nov3.190751.17591@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> Sender: news@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 19:07:51 GMT Lines: 48 Arggghhhh! I have the disk light hang problem. I know this has been posted about before, but were any viable solutions presented? Oh, I am running NetBSD-0.9... The confusion really comes from this: A friend of mine and I have Gateway 66V's....He claims to have never experienced this problem...The [minor] differences in hardware are as follows: Friend's System My System ------------------------------------------------ Gateway 66V Gateway 66V WD 424 meg hd WD 340 meg hd WD 340 meg hd 16 meg RAM 8 meg RAM 256 ext cache 64 ext cache root 20 meg root 20 meg swap 32 meg swap 20 meg /usr 200 /usr 280 /u0 150 So what's the deal? The problem *appears* to happen when I do a *ton* of paging, or sometimes when I telnet to the machine from remote - it hangs immediately after I login... If anybody's got any ideas on this, I would *REALLY* appreciate hearing them...Even if I knew that it couldn't be fixed, I'd still like to know what is happening... And why doesn't my friend ever have the problem? How can I make him have the problem too? :-) Cheerio, Colin. -- fox@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca Colin Bradley McGill University, Montreal Quality of bubble varies directly with soap solution.