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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!news.duke.edu!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1R crashing on IDE controller Date: 31 May 1994 04:57:37 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2seg41$n03@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <JTSILLA.94May28105918@snowdon.ccs.northeastern.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <JTSILLA.94May28105918@snowdon.ccs.northeastern.edu>, James Tsillas <jtsilla@snowdon.ccs.northeastern.edu> wrote: > >I use a 486-33 VLB board with a IDE ST1144 drive as my boot/usr and a >Maxtor 213 w/Adaptec 1542B as my /home. I also have an S3 VLB viedo >board and run XFree86 2.1.1. How much memory are you running? >When building X and during some other task the IDE disk light sometimes >goes solid and the machine freezes for about 5 seconds. It sometimes >recovers from this and continues but other times it halt for good. Could be the machine swapping badly. >I used to not have such problems until recently when I 1) upgraded from >1.1B to 1.1R and 2) installed the S3 board (I used to run an old Diamond >Speedstar). Hmm, I'm not sure but aren't there some S3 boards that don't work due to interrupt problems? Someone in the XFree86 group would know. From GAMMA-Release there were very few changes made to the kernel. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Looking for a good job.