Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:07:18 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.1-RELEASE / 6.2 Kernel Crash... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0612281001470.6559@dave.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <17810.54292.139339.466850@bhuda.mired.org> References: <45918F6E.90006@digitaldaemon.com> <004c01c7293b$d5e03b40$6500a8c0@laptopt> <4591CB3C.1060902@digitaldaemon.com> <200612261808.08984.mario@schmut.com> <4592690B.7080800@digitaldaemon.com> <17810.54292.139339.466850@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Mike Meyer wrote: > I had an 11/750 that ran BSD 4.2 for years with no problems. When I > tried to upgrade it to BSD 4.3, it would reliably panic in namei during > the boot process. We had about a dozen 750s, and this was our test > machine - so none of them were going to be upgraded until this got > fixed, deadline or no. Heh. We had a PDP-11/40 running Edition 6, and it was unable to use the "overlapped seeks" feature of the RK-11 controller, so of course Unix got blamed by DEC. Turned out that DEC OSs (RSX, RSTS etc) never used that feature, and an FCO was necessary to fix it. -- Dave
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