From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 27 14:04:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA03019 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:04:59 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA03012 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:04:56 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0sQhlh-000I2kC; Tue, 27 Jun 95 23:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0sQh55-000208C; Tue, 27 Jun 95 22:17 WET DST Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Random Lockups To: jaitken@cslab.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:17:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506271800.OAA16095@husky.cslab.vt.edu> from "Jeff Aitken" at Jun 27, 95 02:00:03 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 942 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Jeff Aitken: > > On one of our 486's and now my Micron, the system will lock up solid causing > > a hard reboot in the 486 case. In the P100 case the system has to be reset > > by the button. Has anyone else experienced this? This has happened quite > > frequently with the 2.0.5R, never with the 0210-SNAP or 04-SNAP > > With 2.0.5R, I've had this happen twice now. Once was during heavy disk > activity, the second was right after I ran the command 'ispcvt'. In > both cases, the machine hung, with the disk activity light on, and I had > to shut the thing off and back on to reset it. Strange. Ispcvt is just straightforward and simple, the ioctls used do not touch any sensible hardware, they just copy some bytes from here to there. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?