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From: neese@adaptex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Micronics 25MHz problem
Message-ID: <6700018@adaptex>
Date: 18 Aug 89 22:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptex.UUCP!neese    Aug 18 17:49:00 1989


>A friend has just upgraded the motherboard in his ISC 2.0.2 system to a
>Micronics 25MHz board with an ESDI disk controller.  The system boots
>fine, including the mounting of the filesystems on his 300+Meg drive.
>But once he tries to log in and the startup script does a df(1), the
>system hangs.  He has tried reformatting the drive and reloading.
>
>Any ideas would be welcomed.

This smacks of a floating point problem.  Yes 'df' does use floating
point to do the percent conversions.  If you have a floating point
coprocessor in the system, then take it out and try it again.  Just a
thought.


			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
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