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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sshore@monitor-lizard.mit.edu)
Tue Apr 9 02:38:50 1996
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 02:38:46 EDT
From: "sshore@monitor-lizard.mit.edu" <sshore@MIT.EDU>
On April 5th, I was working in 2-032 on m2-032-4 in the Macintosh Application
Environment and using Photoshop 3.0.5 when I had the following problem:
About every 10 minutes the computer would freeze up and I would be unable to do
anything. Pressing STOP-A would bring up the in the lower part of the
screen that asked "type 'go' to resume." Typing go several times would then
start everything up again, right were I left off. I did not lose any files.
However, after everything started working again, the Console window popped up
with the following message: NOTICE: zs3:ring buffer overflow
This happened 3 times, exactly ten minutes apart.
I also had problems with the floppy drive, and was given the following error
message in MAE:
"You will not be able to use Macintosh floppies with MAE because
Solaris' Volume Manager is not available now."
as well as:
"You do not have access permissions to read the SCSI driver file
/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0. You can continue, but you will not be able to use
SCSI disks."
Executing /usr/sbin/vold seemed to solve this problem, but the files that were
saved to the floppy were corrupted and had the above error messages added to
them.
Sarah Shore
sshore@mit.edu
I sent a message to the class instructor, who forwarded the message to Reid
Pinchback in Academic Computing. He said that it sounds more like a system
software problem or a hardware and suggested that the machine be reinstalled
to see if that would be enough to fix it.
