On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 05:36:22AM +0000, Geoff Wing wrote:
> Dave Huang <khym@bga.com> typed:
> :Has anyone else been experiencing random lockups? I've got a Pentium
> :with 64MB RAM, 53c810 and 53c875 SCSI adapters running NetBSD-current,
> :and for the past maybe 3 weeks or so, it's been locking up for no
> :apparent reason.

> Yes, I've had it on two different machines:
> 1) My old machine:
>    i) Pentium-120 (80MB) ATA drives
>   ii) Same with Adaptec 1540CP & Quantum SCSI added (_seemed_ to occur
>       more frequently) - at one stage here I was nearly always rebooting
>       about two-five minutes after it had finished processing /etc/rc
>       (which was another thing to inspire me to spend stacks of money on
>       my new machine :-) )
> 2) PentiumII-400 (256MB-ECC) w/different ATA drives (has occured once in 
>    just over a month)
> 
> They don't respond to anything in the lock up.  They're not pingable.
> At the time I thought it was from disk access - I presumed (from my minimal
> knowledge of the internals here) that it had made a request to the HD and
> was waiting for fulfillment.
> 
> It started happening four or five months back (I think).

My laptop running 1.3F locked up yesterday while I was using X (trying
to eject a CD by hitting the eject button of xmcd, more specifically).
No ping, no crash dump, no nothing.  The IDE bus LED was off, so I guess
it wasn't accessing the CD-ROM (ATAPI) or hard disk at the time of the
lockup.

  -jm