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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:21:37 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stable not very stable 
Message-ID:  <29658.827806897@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Mar 1996 16:23:42 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960325161320.242A-100000@ki.net> 

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> 	Essentially, the system does a bunch of disk thrashing (I believe
> its thrashing while it unbatches news, but am not 100% certain that that is
> what it is doing), then it grinds to a complete halt.
> 
> 	I can change VT's, but that is about it.

FWIW, that failure mode has been reported by others.  Any chance of
swapping this motherboard for something other than a DX4, just to
narrow this a little?  The failures seem to happen about 500% more
often with the DX4 parts, though I'm not sure why.

					Jordan



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