On Sat, 18 Nov 1995, Wolfgang von Hansen wrote:

> There seems to be a problem with the keyboard driver. I've noticed this
> under X11 and don't know if it also applies to a simple console window.
> When there's a lot of SCSI-activity the keyboard behaves strange on input
> into an xterm window. First of all not all pressed keys are recognized
> (which may also be due to higher system load during disk access). Then some
> chars repeat themselves as if the key was not released in time. On even
> higher load the input gets capsed (which can't be reversed using the
> caps-key)..

My system is an A2000 8/2 ram, 2091.  I'm using 1.0.  And I can confirm
this is not related to X at all.  This problem occurs during heavy disk
access, and most noticibly when the daily scripts run at night.  The
keyboard stream would only type capital letters, and if I press the caps
lock key, the light will come on, and the keyboard would type lower-case
letters.  But if I tap it a few more times, the caps come back to normal. 
Several times, the entire console would lock up, and quite a while later,
I'll get a login: and it'll print "repeating too fast" or some error like
that. 

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