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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!ukma!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!math.fu-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!max.IN-Berlin.DE!max.IN-Berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: berry@max.IN-Berlin.DE (Stefan Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386bsd] locked IDE-HD-controller Date: 5 Oct 1992 23:40:52 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 18 Message-ID: <1aqga2INN12i@max.IN-Berlin.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: max.in-berlin.de When I heavilly load my system, or when I use UUCP over a 2400 bps line and my daily run wants to do its job meanwhile, or when I simply do too much things at the same time (with iScreen) my two IDE harddisks get locked (or the controler or the system?). The LED for my IDE-controller is burning and I can go on working until the update daemon tries to synchronize. Until then every process that needs disk-IO blocks for ever. I have got an i38[67] running at 33Mhz, 32KB cache, 8 MB of ram, one IDE controller with an 177 MB and a 245 MB IDE drive (all for 386bsd), an unused printer (every patch I tried caused a reboot) and a modem connected to a 16550AFN UART card. It is the fifth UNIX version I am working with but it is the first multitasking system that gets locked when I actually do multitasking!!! Anyway, I love it. I can write my programms (I save and sync very often) and I can get mails (sendmail with my own sendmail.cf for an UUCP-link) and news (InterNetNews). -- Stefan (berry@max.IN-Berlin.DE)