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From: car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: System hangs while accessing floppy (PC)
Summary: Correction...
Keywords: floppy crash hang
Message-ID: <291@trux.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 89 14:42:23 GMT
References: <281@trux.UUCP>
Organization: Central Cartage, Sterling Hgts., MI
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In article <281@trux.UUCP>, car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
> I'm running Minix 1.2 on a XT clone with 2 floppies.
> 
> <Occasionally>, while accessing the floppy Minix hangs with the following
> symptoms:

  [ see list in previous posting ]

> The FLOPPY task has an incrementing "sys" value in F1's output.

OOPS, It is the HARDWR task that has the increasing sys value, not FLOPPY.

car.
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