David Gatwood wrote:

>The symptoms are:
>
>Drive works for small file operations (an exact number was determined, I
>think, but I don't remember it offhand).  Larger operations such as an
>"rm *" in a large folder, or anything else involving medium-to-high drive
>activity, causes the kernel to spontaneously crash.  The drive activity
>light stays on throughout.  The only solution appears to be a reboot.  I
>don't have access to a system with an interrupt button, so I can't test
>that.

Actually this is a problem with many SCSI drives, not just Syquests.  My 
Quantum 730 also exhibits this behaviour under heavy drive activity.  I 
think that this particular bug in the SCSI driver was discussed on the 
mailing list a month or two ago.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX