[net.unix-wizards] problem with dropping characters on an idle system

chris@MARYLAND.ARPA (09/23/84)

From:  Chris Torek <chris@MARYLAND.ARPA>

Can't say I've ever seen that, but if iostat shows lots of I/O it's
probably that the entire device (DH, DZ, DMF, whatever) has gone
bonkers.  (We seem to have one line on each device break about once a
year, but we've never had a whole DH die.)

Chris