On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> > When the machine hangs, the kernel writes these messages on the console,
> > about two messages/second or so:
> > 
> > 
> > ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x8
> > ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x8
> > ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 20.0MHz, offset = 0x8
> > ... and so on, for ever...

> First check cables and terminations.

Done. Everything looks OK.

> Then try removing the CD or DLT, if possible.
> Maybe it's one of the disks
> which is becoming bad ?

But why isn't the kernel panicking? Why does it allow itself to go into
an endless loop of printing these messages on the console?

Gunnar

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