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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 19:25:20 +0800
From: Jonah Kuo <jonahkuo@mail.ttn.com.tw>
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Doug White wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Jonah Kuo wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >     Recently, everytime I shutdown my 3.0 box, it always give me
> > messages like
> >
> > syncing disks ..... 28 28 28 27 26 .............7 6 5 4 3 giving up
> >
> > then when I boot machine again, it checks disks because / dismounted
> > improperly.
> >
> > I had tried
> >
> > sync; sync; sync;
> >
> > before I shutdown it, but same stituation is still happening,
> > any hint?
> >
>
> Run the syncs then wait 30 seconds?

No, I didn't wait for 30 seconds.

>  What type of disks do you have?

NCR 810 + Quantum 1.0 GB SCSI, by the way, the problem happenssince I
installed the Netscape Communicator 4.x from ports selection.

>
>
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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