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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta
Date: 12 Apr 94 03:12:15 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Message-ID: <michaelv.766120335@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
References: <Co3MBA.s3@pegasus.com> <Co3zGC.64o@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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In <Co3zGC.64o@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) writes:
>richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>I have a 486/66 with an AHA1542CF SCSI card that locks up about
>>once a day with the disk activity light on.
>>
>>Does this sound familiar to anyone?
>heh. I just was going to post about a similar problem on my computer. Here's
>what the FAQ has to say. I'd like some more information about the suggested
>fix, though :
[...]
>My problem is similar to Richard's, but doesn't leave the HD light on.
That is because you aren't getting a SCSI-bus hang!
>OS/2 on
>my system will also experience the hangs, but continues happily after about 10
>seconds. I have an ISA IDE drive (generic controller), on a sluggy 25MHz (no
>cache) 386DX, running FreeBSD 1.1-beta, 8MB RAM.
[FAQ info deleted]
This is a description of *IDE* problems. *IDE* and *SCSI* are
completely unrelated. This has no relevance to the above mentioned
problem.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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