Re: 2.2.1 crash

Marc Heckmann (pfeif@step.polymtl.ca)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:26:02 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, David Monniaux wrote:

>
> The system totally hung, even SAK couldn't tell it to stop. It was
> apparently trying to do something with the ZIP, since the orange light on
> the ZIP was flashing in a repeating pattern. Ejecting the ZIP cartridge
> didn't help. I was forced to power-cycle the machine (then manual fsck).
>
There have been on alot of reports of systems freezes (2.2.1) with ZIP
drives. I have experienced myself. What type of filesystem was on the
disk, cause there have been a lot of crash reports with vfat as well.

Marc Heckmann

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