From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 12:01:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA23331 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:01:39 -0800 Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (2842@vegemite.Stanford.EDU [36.159.0.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA23324 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:01:37 -0800 Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.4) id MAA21402; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:01:17 -0800 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:01:17 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: dos drives & hang Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My system is: 486 (100 Mhz) 12 Megs RAM 540 Megs (split between FreeBSD & DOS) 130 Megs (split between FreeBSD & DOS) FreeBSD (snap release) Virtual memory is on the 130 Meg drive (32 Meg Swap File) And is this normal:? I'm receiving a file via ftp to the 130 Meg Drive (MSDOS partition). At the same time, I do a copying job to the 130 Meg Drive DOS partition from the 540 , i.e. cp file /msdosd/. Now everything seems to be okay at this point, but if I open an xterm and cd to the DOS partition of the 130 Meg Drive and do a ls, the whole system hangs. Although I can move the mouse around and try to open another xterm with fvwm, no xterms ever get opened. I can't kill any jobs either. The access lights on both hard disks are off. Any ideas? Is FreeBSD supposed to support some kind of an unlimited simultaneous disk access?