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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix bug report (hard disk problems)
Message-ID: <7731@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 21:02:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  2 21:02:56 1987
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> I am on a 'pure' IBM pc and have the same problem with read errors 
> ocurring while typing with hard disk activity.  I dont think it is a 
> compatability problem.  Probably a bug in interrupt handling, although 
> I have not looked at that code yet.

Don't overlook the possibility that it may be an out-and-out hardware bug.
Disk interrupts probably do not get exercised much by MSDOS software; it
is quite possible that there's a design flaw there.  (Unix is notorious
for discovering hardware flaws that nothing else finds.)
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