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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Question for FREEbsd folks
Date: 4 Nov 1993 19:12:49 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD/User Services
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Hi all. I'm currently running NetBSD-0.8. Overall, I've been very happy with
it. Unfortunately, there are a couple of really nasty bugs that I wanted to
know if FREEBSD (or NetBSD-0.9) fixed.
I don't have a very large machine (ALR 386/33, total 310M hd, 5M ram),
i have one IDE drive that's 120 meg, and one SCSI drive that's 200. the first
bug is the hard disk lite hang thing. I've heard a lot of talk about it, but
alas, no solutions.
The second is that sometimes, (about once a week), i get a hard write error on
my ide drive (wd0). and then it just crashes flat out. This was a bigger
problem before I got the scsi drive, because it would get these errors when
writing to swap (with 5 meg, it's pretty often).
I was wondering if either or both of these bugs have been fixed, and would
make it worthwile for me to move to FREEbsd or NetBSD-0.9.
Thanx...alex...
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