[comp.sys.next] panic,losing HD space

philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) (05/06/91)

My 040 cube has been losing hard drive space. I was at 89meg free a few
days ago, but earlier today I was down to 69megs free. Finally, when
I checked the cube, there was a "panic" notice and the NeXT was frozen.
Typing ? at the panic> prompt gave me a bunch of options. One was to
sync and reboot, which is what I did. Whatever happened this seemed to
fix everything( for now) and restored my free hard drive space to 89megs!

Any ideas? This has shaken my confidence in my cube, and will no doubt
make me hesitate in purchasing ND. I have an OD, 040 cube, v.32bis
modem, 349meg hard drive. I leave it on all the time( and never log
off basically). I always keep an optical disk in the OD which has all the
docs. There is a dust filter.

The other error which I have noticed from the Console log is
"zs1: lost xmit HW interrupt". I use tip, and the modem does call
out for my mail every so often.

What is going on?

Forgot, I also have a PLI external floppy.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca