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From: fink@nucthy.physics.orst.edu (Paul Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: IBM RT and BSD 4.3
Message-ID: <10330@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 2 May 89 18:08:24 GMT
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In article <4530@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
>In article <11553@udenva.cair.du.edu>, mbrookov@udenva (Matthew B. Brookover) writes:
>>
>>1) The floppy disk drive will work fine for a minute or 2 then we get
>>this message on the console in red letters:  

>>fd not open! bp=e009e380 b_flags=8108 b_blkno=30 b_count=800
>>/etc/update, and any process using the floppy get hung in disk waits, and
>>the load starts to go way up.  What causes this, and can it be fixed?
>>We had to reboot the machine to get things back to normal.
>
>When we reported this problem to IBM we were basically told that we
>were hallucinating.  Something about they never having seen it, so it
>could not be happening.
>
We have the same problem. Has anyone seen a fix for this?




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