Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!bu.edu!wang!saturn!martin From: martin@saturn.uucp (Martin J. Schedlbauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: ISC 2.2 Hangs on disk I/O Message-ID: <1991Mar16.133513.428@saturn.uucp> Date: 16 Mar 91 13:35:13 GMT References: <24113@hydra.gatech.EDU> <27DD916A.14624@orion.oac.uci.edu> Reply-To: martin@saturn.UUCP (Martin J. Schedlbauer) Distribution: usa Organization: Martin Schedlbauer, Billerica, MA 01862 (USA) Lines: 41 In article <27DD916A.14624@orion.oac.uci.edu> drector@orion.oac.uci.edu (David Rector) writes: >This is posted for a friend: Ira Baxter - baxter@slcs.slb.com > >------------------------ > > I have a Modular Circuit Technology's 25MHz cache 386 system. > I have a Western Digital WD1006V-SR2 RLL controller with a Segate > ST-277-1 65MB RLL Harddisk with DOS in the first ~8Meg partion and > ISC 2.2 UNIX in the rest. /etc/partions contains an accurate map > of the bad sectors in the unix partion. > > The problem: > Some times during disk I/O, the disk light will just stay on solid > and the system is locked up. I can not get any response other than > turning the stupid thing off. > It happened to me twice too under a different combination: Esix 3.2D AMI 386-25 Maxtor 8760E (650 MB ESDI) UltraStore 12F ESDI controller During VERY heavy file I/O sometimes the drive light just stays on, the system is NOT dead, but yu can't get anywhere until you do a hard reset. Somebody said that this is a known problem with the WD controllers if you have two drives and two seeks are started at the same time. I took out my second drive and I am running single now and it happened again about a week ago. So that doesn't seem to be the problem. ...Martin -- ============================================================================== Martin J. Schedlbauer | martin@saturn.UUCP | ...!ulowell!saturn!martin 8 Gilman Road | mschedlb@ulowell.edu | ...!uunet!wang!saturn!martin Billerica, MA 01862 USA | CIS: 76675, 3364 | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\