Subject: harddrive headaches
To: None <amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mike Heinz <mheinz@gateway.ssw.com>
List: amiga
Date: 02/06/1995 09:16:52
Recently, I tried using a SyQuest 44 as an additional swap device to see if
performance improved. It seemed to (since swapping no longer locked up all
the other partitions) so I switched from the external 44 to an internal
Quantum ProDrive ELS - when I read the drive type with HDToolBox it's called
a Quantum CTS-80. Anyway, said drive works fine when used as an AmigaDos
partition, I tried reading and writing large chunks (40 megs) of data to it
to make sure. >But< when I boot UNIX, the system seems to hang the first time
it tries to access the swap drive. (I mean, it usually comes all the way up,
and I even get X running, but the moment I do anything the system freezes).
This isn't the drive re-selection problem, because I have that turned off.
Any ideas?
Also, any ideas why ioctl(0,TIOCSCTTY,0) would cause a program to silently
crash? (It doesn't even dump core!)
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