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From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD hangs
Message-ID: <1992Sep8.190240.23921@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:02:40 GMT
References: <ZCO6TOH@desert.in-berlin.de> <david.715668854@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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In <david.715668854@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) writes:

>hell@desert.in-berlin.de (Steffen Hellwig) writes:

>>Hallo world.
>>I've some problems running 386BSD on my 386 40MHZ with an ADAPTEC 1542A
>>I've installed 386BSD sucsessfully on a Fujutsu M2624FA SCSI Disk and every 
>>thinks works fine.
>>But sometimes, most often during heavy disk-io, the machine hangs without
>>any comments.

>>Anyone else noticed that strange thing?

>I have had that happening. It usually happens when I do two large things
>such as run GCC twice while under Xwindows.. The swapping will halt, and
>the machine will go quiet. And stay that way.

Similar experience here. Do two large "makes" of libraries and binaries
from separate telnet sessions, and the system reboots every now and
again. Bit of a curse, as it does not recognise the WD enet card at
reboot unless I press the hardware reset button.

My system has a 154x Adaptec card, a 600Mb SCSI, 8Mb RAM, 386 DX
processor, Octek motherboard.

Mike
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Mike Lawrie                                    <ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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