Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 16:22:23 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Anthony.Kimball@East.Sun.COM, pius@ienet.com Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wdunwedge failed Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970820162223.00967b70@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <882564F9.00799310.00@IWNS2.infoworld.com>
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Actually, it is much more likely that the display is redrawing, erasing, and scrolling so fast that it appears blank or dim. Which means the messages are coming in at a rate of hundreds per second. The WD driver has some busy-waits that could easily cause the rest of the system to freeze at the same time. --Brett At 04:29 PM 8/20/97 -0500, alk@pobox.com wrote: > > > >Quoth pius@ienet.com on Wed, 20 August: >: It flickers. For example, a screen full of these "wdunwedge failed" error >: messages appears for a second or two and then the screen completely >blanks >: out for a second. Then the error messages are visible again briefly, then >: the screen goes blank, and so no. Sort of like someone quickly turning >the >: monitor on and off. >Sounds like a dead marmoset stuck in the transformer coils of your >power supply. Have you been routing in the rainforest lately? >Try releasing some mealworms to clean it out. >Pius, eh. Say, weren't you Pope for a while? > > > > > > >
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