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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>
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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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