From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 28 18:47:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA14182 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA14139 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 18:47:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2920 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Apr 1997 01:40:23 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199704281139.HAA16471@hda.hda.com> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:25:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: iConnect Corp. From: Simon Shapiro To: Peter Dufault Subject: Re: A Desparate Plea for Help... Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Peter Dufault; On 28-Apr-97 you wrote: > (To keep the jazz from spinning down send it a TEST UNIT READY > every so often). To keep this motor here from boiling over, use this here coathanger to tie this belt together :-))) I know this trick... I was expecting Iomega, for an initial order of 200 units to at least answer the question, or supply a spec. It is a dog-slow device anyway. > > The last and most troubling problem is a complete crash/freeze when > running > > certain X11 applications; At ONE point, we managed to observe a panic > that > > went something like: > > > > Fata trap 12 page fault at 0xf71e0014 > > > > _spec_open+0x6e > > _vm_open > > _open > > _syscall > > _Xsyscall > > Are you using LKMs? Why does everyone ask about them? I am. The Linux emulation (not executing), the screen saver (not crashing), and OSS (Yes, i paid $20.00 for a binary without source, that probably crashes the system. I will configure it off and feel like a complete idiot if this turns out to be the problem. Simon