Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 died on our VAX. Message-ID: <2281@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 16:53:30 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2281 Posted: Mon Mar 19 16:53:30 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Mar-84 00:55:49 EST References: <301@erix.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 5 If you system just hung, it was probably waiting for the disk controller to interrupt it indicating that the last-issued transfer or seek was complete. The HP disk drivers do no timeouts to detect lost controllers. A drive that goes dead should cause an interrupt, so it's only in the case of a dead controller that you should see this sort of hang.