Subject: Re: constant core dumps
To: None <a.fowler@ic.ac.uk>
From: Masami and Ken Nakata <masami@fa2.so-net.or.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/06/1997 09:08:03
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:11:20 +0000 (GMT),
a.fowler@ic.ac.uk wrote:
> I keep getting core dumps running generic9 on my IIcx
> They seem to be kinda random in nature, and get more frequent as
> i have any particular installation running. Complete re-install 
> only fixes the problem temporarily.
> 
> I recently installed the NFS-44 kernal, and it's still random dumping the 
> (just any core, shutdown.core, vi.core, jove.core etc...) 
> 
> Is this likely to be a problem with nrscsi? I know that's supposed to cause
> lots of filesystem damage in some cases.

No, I'd be worried about failing hardware (maybe RAM) or
an ill-terminated SCSI chain, maybe.

> I have run with a SBC version, but it is REALY slow. Would changing the HD
> driver help any? Im running the FWB's HD toolkit driver. Would re-installing 
> the apple driver improve things?

Not at all.  No MacOS disk driver is run under NetBSD.

Ken