On Wed, 22 May 1996, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > > mounted read-only, so rm complained.  And when I tried to "mount -u /" to 
> > > get the root partition mounted read-write, the system hung, with the same 
> > > symptoms as in the 1st boot.
> > 
> > I saw the same responce to mount -u / The disk is spinning (the light
> > is on) but the system hangs.
> 
> Perhaps I wasn't clear with my message yesterday.  SCSI is broken in
> current.  SCSI has pretty much always been broken, but it's really
> broken right now due to a change in how the VIA interrupts are handled.
> I'm working on it.  If I can't get it fixed, we'll probably back off
> to the old via code, but that would be a step in the wrong direction.

Monday's message was clear to me...  (And Yes, Mac's SCSI has always been 
sick, with at least a toe, if not an entire foot, in the grave... :)

Anyway, I'd much rather wait another day or three than take a step 
backwards.