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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 1995 12:01:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   dos drives & hang
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.950310115054.21371E-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>

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My system is:

486 (100 Mhz)
12 Megs RAM
540 Megs (split between FreeBSD & DOS)
130 Megs (split between FreeBSD & DOS)
FreeBSD (snap release)

Virtual memory is on the 130 Meg drive (32 Meg Swap File)

And is this normal:?

I'm receiving a file via ftp to the 130 Meg Drive (MSDOS partition).  At 
the same time, I do a copying job to the 130 Meg Drive DOS partition from 
the 540 , i.e. cp file /msdosd/.

Now everything seems to be okay at this point, but if I open an xterm 
and cd to the DOS partition of the 130 Meg Drive and do a ls, the whole 
system hangs.  Although I can move the mouse around and try to open 
another xterm with fvwm, no xterms ever get opened.  I can't kill any 
jobs either.  The access lights on both hard disks are off.

Any ideas?

Is FreeBSD supposed to support some kind of an unlimited simultaneous 
disk access?




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