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Subject: kern/11208: Complete system hang/freeze.  No PANIC message at all.  
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>Number:         11208
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Complete system hang/freeze.  No PANIC message at all.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr 18 23:00:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brendon Meyer
>Release:        3.1
>Organization:
PT Freeport Indonesia Company
>Environment:
FreeBSD exjfserver.jkta.fmi.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Apr 11 22:31:10 JAVT 1999     root@exjfserver.jkta.fmi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GOLIATH  i386
>Description:
System completely freezes when attempting to access the floppy drive.  

Problem is intermittent but it does not take many attempts to get the system to freeze.  
So far, have only seen this problem on a Quad Processor Goliath 730 based system.  

Note that there is *no* painc, no diagnostics, nothing.  System goes completely catatonic.  

October 1997 Snapshots, 3.0 release and 3.1 have all exhibited the same behaviour in the past.  

Please contact me if for Kernel configuration, hardware configuration, etc.  
>How-To-Repeat:
Simply perform I/O to the floppy.  

Formatting, DD, anything that deals with the floppy on a Goliath 730 based machine seems to have a 50-50 chance of causing a "hang".  
>Fix:
Don't use the floppy drive and these systems work just fine.  



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