Subject: Re: Processes Hanging in a Disk Wait
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Mark Brinicombe <amb@physig4.ph.kcl.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/1996 20:15:05
Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@MIT.EDU> wrote
>>
>> num_output = 1;
>> read = 0;
>> write = 0;
>> referenced = 0;
>> flags = VXLOCK | VBWAIT;
>
>This indicates that a buffer is never being freed.  That's most likely
>a bug in the low-level SCSI driver.

I have not had this happen to me yet on a SCSI drive. However I get the
problem regularly on IDE drives using a driver that is almost identical
to the isa/wd driver (a few attachment changes)

Cheers,
				Mark

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