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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: IDE fix for wini.c problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.234814.855@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:48:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.080437.6998@sol.UVic.CA>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <1991Mar27.080437.6998@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sol.uvic.ca (Peter MacDonald) writes:

>The following problem (or variations thereof) has been posted by
>a number of people over the last few months.  The problem manifests
>itself as unexpected interrupts during disk reads in protected mode, 
>causing the 386 to hang, usually with the drive light stuck on.  
>In my case, I can invariably induce this condition by running 
>fsck /dev/hd2.

>I have been wrestling with this problem since last October and think
>I finally have a (kludgy) fix.  After all this time, elegance has 
>ceased to be an issue.

This change seems to help my machine, a DTK 386sx with WD-1006 RLL
controller.  fsck /dev/hd2 (a 59Mb partition on my machine) used to
hang my machine quite consistently with the CPU running at full speed,
but I haven't been able to lock up my machine since I applied this change.

Thanks for the fix.
-- 
Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services
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