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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Subject: Re: AHA1542 hanging with FreeBSD 1.1beta Message-ID: <Co5pu9.AHG@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN References: <Co3MBA.s3@pegasus.com> <Co3zGC.64o@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <michaelv.766120335@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 17:27:45 GMT Lines: 34 michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes: >In 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. > >>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! Yes. I have an IDE controller. >[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. The FAQ description is indeed of an IDE problem, with the wd drivers, not the sd drivers. However, the description fits Richard's problem _exactly_. Drive light and all. My drive light is not stuck on, even though I have the same hardware as the FAQ example talks about. The problems seem related, even though the drive light differences and hardware differences. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then information on a duck is likely to be rather useful stuff. I repeat my original question : Does anyone have the kernal code hack mentioned in the FAQ, so that I can try it out without the danger of someone who is not familiar with the code (myself) hacking something rather fundamental (disk device drivers in the kernel). Alec