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From: fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers)
Subject: Re: Oldbie discovers problem(s) with wd.c but has more.
Message-ID: <1992Dec1.163504.26806@rtpnc.epa.gov>
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Organization: United States Environmental Protection Agency
References: <1992Nov28.144527.3506@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 16:35:04 GMT
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In article <1992Nov28.144527.3506@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>, hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes:
>Some of you may remember my post from a couple of weeks ago regarding
>the problems I've been having with getting my machine to work properly
>at home. I was getting non-random hangs (ie: fsck would hang about
>9 times out of 9.1) and a few other select items... The wd.c from
>the patchkit wouldn't work because I'd get "panic: cannot mount root".
[ Lot's of stuff deleted ]
I had the same problem with an old beater MFM drive. Apply the following patch
and put STUPIDWD in the options in your config file.
Here's the patch:
*** wd.c.ref Sun Nov 29 13:37:14 1992
--- wd.c Tue Dec 1 11:26:41 1992
***************
*** 237,244 ****
--- 237,248 ----
du->dk_unit = unit;
}
else {
+ #ifdef STUPIDWD
+ printf(" no status unit - %d, ", unit);
+ #else
free(du, M_TEMP);
wddrives[unit] = 0;
+ #endif
}
}
return(1);
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Frank Terhaar-Yonkers fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov
Unisys/U.S. EPA (919)541-2297