Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 22:17:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: jaitken@cslab.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Random Lockups Message-ID: <m0sQh55-000208C@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199506271800.OAA16095@husky.cslab.vt.edu> from "Jeff Aitken" at Jun 27, 95 02:00:03 pm
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>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
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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