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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (esit@MIT.EDU)
Sun Jul 14 01:16:56 1996
From: esit@MIT.EDU
To: Jacob B Schwartz <quark@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jul 1996 23:47:15 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 01:12:57 EDT
Hi.
Do you have a green PC? You might want to make sure that
stuff like spin down hard drive is turned off. They make
for bad interrupts.
Eric
>I just re-installed NetBSD. I was running a really old version which worked
>fine, I just needed more space and wanted to wipe my hard disk clean. But
>now I get "wdc0: interrupt lost: blah blah blah" errors left and right. And
>it's causing my machine to be sooooooooo slooooooooowww. Disk access seems
>to be okay, it just takes forever (and I can't get anything done). I'm
>wondering if anyone knows what I can do (would a custom kernel fix things?).
>Maybe I should just go back to the old NetBSD...
