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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Non-letters on SLS support
Summary: This IS the same problem (1006 .vs. 1007)
Message-ID: <1990May31.005321.21881@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 31 May 90 00:53:21 GMT
References: <2265@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
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In article <2265@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>
>  One of my minor gripes with the SLS updates is that the cover letters
>don't clearly state what they are supposed to fix, add, or change.
>
>  As soon as I get a system with a WD1006 hanging (I have seen
>repeatable cases of this) I'm going to put in the WD1007 patch which
>(probably) addresses the same problem. At any rate the helpful person on
>the phone said that it addressed hanging due to overlapping seeks (more
>or less). That seems to be a candidate for the 1006 problem as well.

This >is< the same problem, at least on ISC.

There is a one-line fix (that I've previously posted) for ISC.  I suspect
that this patch will fix it for Xenix as well.

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