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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!news.byu.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!nic.umass.edu!twain.ucs.umass.edu!not-for-mail From: peter@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Peter deFriesse) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 1.1-GAMMA FRUSTRATION! Date: 5 May 1994 09:15:22 -0400 Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Lines: 30 Message-ID: <2qarhaINN9bk@twain.ucs.umass.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: twain.ucs.umass.edu It is beginning to look like my only option is to dump FreeBSD 1.1 and drop back to 1.0.2. Damn. I posted a while back about I/O lockups and not a whisper from anyone. Symptom is: Start an I/O (disk, that is) operation and the system locks up. Lockups last about 8-10 seconds, then all is well again. The worst thing is that the problem is intermittent so it's hard to point the finger at anything in particular. Since no-one else who reads this group has responded, I have to assume that the problem is unique to my hardware. Izitso? FreeBSD 1.0.2 did _not_ display this problem. Am I mis-configured? Turn off fast SCSI? Ack. System configuration: VL/EISA-486SV1 50DX motherboard W/16 meg onboard Award BIOS Ver. 4.00 Buslogic 747s Rev. 4.70 host adapter Mach32 videoboard 2-com ports, 1 parallel port Fujitsu 2694ES 1-GIG SCSI disk Logitech Mouseman System configured with 386bsdGENERICBT kernel -- peter defriesse * any opinions expressed in this e-mail assistant operations manager * message or news article are solely those university computing services * of the author i do not editorialize for umass amherst 01003 * oit umass or the commonwealth of mass