At 14:23 Uhr +0100 14.12.1998, Chas Williams wrote:
>In message <199812140910.BAA200790@pdxcs205.pdx.intel.com>,Colin Wood writes:
>>something that got corrupted via interaction with the scsi code and the
>>pool allocator perhaps?  there's definitely been something slightly screwy
>>going on in that area for several months now given the reports that i've
>
>i think its actually worse than that really.  even on a 1.3.2 system i
>have trouble with the following sequence (it doesnt matter which macine
>i am using):
>
>[repeat 10 times]
>	mount /dev/sd1<blah> /mnt
>	umount /mnt
>
>eventually, the kernel will hang solid and even an nmi doesnt get a reponse.

I have seen this months ago, with the MO drive. You get away with the first
and the second mount, but the third try is likely to catch you.

	hauke



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