From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 18 15:58:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00759 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uop.cs.uop.edu (uop.cs.uop.edu [138.9.200.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00606 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bford@uop.cs.uop.edu) Received: from heather (user183.pop2.cwia.com [209.142.32.183]) by uop.cs.uop.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA14279 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 15:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000f01bd82b0$693b7080$0100a8c0@heather.my.domain> From: "Bret Ford" To: Subject: Softupdates - unsuccessful Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:57:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I gave softupdates a try on my box. The hardware setup: 486 dx2/66 - 128mb parity RAM Adaptec 1542C SCSI controller with two external SCSI-2 devices: 1) A Fujitsu - ~500mb. This is the drive the OS sits on. 2) An HP C3010 - a 5 1/4" full-height beast - ~2000mb. This is the drive that softupdates tried to eat! :-) I tried copying a large directory---in the background---while checking its progress with 'ls.' After some crunching, the drive started into a looping kind of read and/or write cycle, sounding, close enough, like Tic-kuh-duh-DUG-uh-duh---over and over. 'ls' just hung, and I couldn't kill it. I turned off the power, rebooted single-user, and fsck'ed my way out (a little messy, but no harm done---this is my playground drive, anyway---nothing important to lose) Bret Ford To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message