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- From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.1 locking up on A3000
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 00:17:44 GMT
- Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
- Message-ID: <4dul38$jhk@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>
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- jshaffer@pennet.net writes:
-
- >Does anyone know why NetBSD 1.1 might be locking up occasionally on an Amiga 3000
- >with 8 meg of Fast RAM and a Quantum Lightning 730MB hard drive? When it does it,
- >it always does it during the boot process, but not always at the same point.
- >Sometimes it'll do it during the configuration, other times while executing the rc
- >file. The system freezes with the SCSI light lit.
-
- You should probably make sure you stay under 80 char lines. The above is
- ugly and hard to read....
-
- At a guess I would say your problem is SCSI termination. NetBSD seems to
- be more finicky about proper termination than AmigaOS is.
-
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