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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!bigbang.astro.indiana.edu!ahabig From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] - kernal hangs on disk wait Date: 8 Jan 1995 15:51:02 GMT Organization: Indiana University Astrophysics, Bloomington, IN Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3ep1l6$s7n@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <3eh9qa$1ie@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <3emga3$rb8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <3emsq3$dnm@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.astro.indiana.edu nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <3emga3$rb8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, >Alec Habig <ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu> wrote: >>Just wanted to repost this, as while the cache problem earlier reported seems >>to be all in hardware, the machine hanging randomly when I try to do anything >>reasonably intense sucks bigtime, and is certainly a FreeBSD software problem. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >In your original article you stated that OS/2 also experienced the same >behavior, and given the sad state of PC hardware, I'm am almost positive >it's NOT a FreeBSD problem but a hardware problem, especially considering >that you said your machine works when the cache is disabled. OS/2 also had the cache problem. In running with the cache disabled, OS/2 is fine and FreeBSD has the problem with the disk hangs. So there are two entirely seperate problems, with problem #2 being this disk controller problem, and problem #1 being a cache hardware problem - which is not relevant if the cache is disabled. Sorry for the confusion. An easy question for you to answer - can I grab the current wd.c file, plug it into the 1.1.5 kernal and stand any chance of it working? Alec -- Alec Habig, Indiana University High Energy Astrophysics ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu http://astrowww.astro.indiana.edu/personnel/ahabig/ Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns.