Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!jlb
From: jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What does this error mean?
Message-ID: <2709@aipna.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Aug 90 12:46:26 GMT
Reply-To: jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (John Beaven)
Organization: Dept of AI, Edinburgh University, UK.
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Hi folks. 

I hope this is not an excessively dumb question. I'm new to Minix, and
I'm trying to install 1.3 (as supplied by PH) on my Tandon Plus (286 box,
perfectly AT compatible in my previous experience, 1M ram, with hard
drive that I haven't managed to get to work with minix - It keeps on
complaining about /dev/hd0 when I do the suggested test  dd if=/dev/hd0
of=/dev/null count=1000, though it is there - but that's another
story).

My question is: Every so often (half hour or so), the system
gives me the error: 
Unexpected interrupt or trap: vector=13 pc=0x1DC text+data+bss=0x9A0

After that, as soon as I do anything that involves accessing the disks, the
system just hangs on me, leaving the disk drive light on, and I have to 
reboot.

Does anyone know what this error message means?

Thanks for any help.

John
jlb@aipna.ed.ac.uk