Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:09:21 +0100 | From | Horvath Karoly <> | Subject | Re: sync hanging on a 10 gig ide drive |
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On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 02:01:49PM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: > I have a friend with a RedHat 5.0 system. It has patches installed up to > whatever was current in June. (Kernel 2.0.32) > > The drive is a 10 gig ide drive with Linux on the first 6 gig and the rest is > Win 95. He has about 180 megs of ram on the box. > > When a sync command is issued, you can hear the drive sync, but the sync > command never returns back to the prompt. `kill -9` will not kill the hung > sync process. > > I am going to upgrade his system to a later version of RedHat, but I am very > currious if anyone has seen this problem and/or there is a known cause for this > behaviour. Since huge drives such as this are becoming more and more > available, this could become a big concern. (Or at lest a big entry in a FAQ > somewhere...)
I have a 1.7G ide drive, and I had the problem also, so 10 gigs has no bearing on the problem. I upgraded some packages (maybe fileutils), and it worked fine afterwards.
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