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- From: roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Shell locks up in 1.65
- Message-ID: <V9oNuB1w165w@cybrspc.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 13:56:30 CST
- References: <1992Nov21.200155.4401@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN
- Lines: 41
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- ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
-
- > roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
- [about Waffle locking up]
- >
- > >Anyone have any ideas? I get the feeling that it might be ANSI-related,
- > >but why didn't things lock up before the new disc?
- >
- > IDE drive? You might trying throwing in a wait state to see if
- > that clears it.
-
- MFM drive. A pair of ST-251-1 on a WD-GEN controller. Only one drive
- added; the other one and the controller have been here since 1989.
-
- > Disk cache? Try enabling staged writes.
-
- No such option for this cache. The program came with my motherboard.
- (suggestions for a ramdisk/cache or memory manager that'll let 4dos swap
- to high memory also welcome.. I have 1 meg total)
-
- > As usual, one change at a time. Take out ANSI!
-
- I can't take out ANSI, because this is my main machine and unloadable
- drivers don't have the same capabilities as NANSI. Besides, under the
- 'one change at a time' rule, the last change in usually causes the
- problems, and that's the disk. NANSI has been here since almost
- forever. (this still doesn't explain how adding a HD causes problems,
- but I'll leave than alone for now)
-
- > Poke around for GATEWAY, a CTTY-replacement that's fossil-aware.
-
- Thanks, Ralph. I'll look for that one. Meanwhile, I threw together
- another machine, hoping to test stuff out locally. Of course, the other
- system has different symptoms, even with the same drivers loaded. But
- the other one also doesn't have a hard disc. (the only portion of the
- main machine I can't duplicate)
- --
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- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
- -- Arthur Dent
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