Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!merch!cpe!adaptex!neese 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 References: <1908@ucsd.EDU> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:ucsd.EDU:1908:adaptex:6700018:000:731 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 UUCP @ {texbell,killer}!cpe!adaptex!neese merch!adaptex!neese