jimmy@anes.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb) (08/18/89)
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. Thank you... Jim Gottlieb (posting for friend Dave Kompel) jimmy@denwa.uucp denwa!jimmy@anes.ucla.edu
neese@adaptex.UUCP (08/19/89)
>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
cwiener@crlabs.CRLABS.COM (Chris Wiener) (08/20/89)
In article <6700018@adaptex> neese@adaptex.UUCP writes: > >>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 > >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. > A better idea would be to call up Interactive's Support People in California (N.H. people are useless) and ask them for a copy of the "floating point fix diskette". This did the job for me after 4 months of playing games with the N.H. support people, the California office solved the problem in 2 phone calls. Nice work Alan Yoshida! Now maybe Interactive could integrate this into their next release instead of causing everyone to have to ask this question. A mention in the 2.0.2 release notes at least! . . . Chris -- Christopher Wiener N2CR CR Labs, Fort Lee, NJ DOMAIN: cwiener@CRLABS.COM UCCP: ..!attctc!crlabs!cwiener
james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) (08/21/89)
In <6700018@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP wrote: > This smacks of a floating point problem. Yes 'df' does use floating > point to do the percent conversions. dfspace, not df. -- James R. Van Artsdalen james@raid.dell.com "Live Free or Die" DCC Corporation 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789
rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) (08/24/89)
In article <2877@dell.dell.com> james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
++>In <6700018@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP wrote:
++>
++>> This smacks of a floating point problem. Yes 'df' does use floating
++>> point to do the percent conversions.
++>
++>dfspace, not df.
++>--
++>James R. Van Artsdalen james@raid.dell.com "Live Free or Die"
++>DCC Corporation 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789
If you are using the same 'dfspace' that came over the net as I am then the
very first line (non-comment) is 'df -t $* | awk'.
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PHONE +1 404 493 9017 | Atlanta, GA 30341-0217dave@pmafire.UUCP (Dave Remien) (08/25/89)
In article <2426@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes: |In article <2877@dell.dell.com> james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) writes: |++>In <6700018@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP wrote: |++> |++>> This smacks of a floating point problem. Yes 'df' does use floating |++>> point to do the percent conversions. |++> |++>dfspace, not df. |If you are using the same 'dfspace' that came over the net as I am then the |very first line (non-comment) is 'df -t $* | awk'. df doesn't do FP, awk does; I think James wins on this one :-). Let's have a net.nitpick.war! :-) :-). -- Dave Remien - WINCO Computer Eng. Group -{uunet | bigtex}!pmafire!dave- "And who's birthday is today?" "Why, nobody, Hugh" (Firesign "In history, Patty, before they changed the water...." Theater)
neese@adaptex.UUCP (08/26/89)
>In article <2426@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes: >|In article <2877@dell.dell.com> james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) writes: >|++>In <6700018@adaptex>, neese@adaptex.UUCP wrote: >|++> >|++>> This smacks of a floating point problem. Yes 'df' does use floating >|++>> point to do the percent conversions. >|++> >|++>dfspace, not df. >|If you are using the same 'dfspace' that came over the net as I am then the >|very first line (non-comment) is 'df -t $* | awk'. > > df doesn't do FP, awk does; I think James wins on this one :-). > > Let's have a net.nitpick.war! :-) :-). Okay, Okay, 'df' by itself does not use FP, but 'df -v' does. I think that is the only argument that will cause FP to be invoked. I know this to be true as I have run into the same basic problem as above when using 'df -v', but when using just 'df' everything was okay. Actually we need comp.nitpick.war, just to keep things rolling. Roy Neese Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer UUCP @ {texbell,killer}!cpe!adaptex!neese merch!adaptex!neese