Terry Eck
Mark Gray wrote:
I tried to copy the 9.2 installation DVD to disk using two different DVD readers on running 9.1 systems, and they both failed with read errors part way through. Then I booted up the rescue system from the 9.2 DVD and copied the DVD to hard disk without any problems. To my mind this shows that the problem is caused by an interrupt related bug in the IDE driver.
Just my $0.02 worth.
I'm wondering if what you say about the "interrupted related bug" caused what I saw twice yesterday. As a normal practice I backup my system to my second hard disk using rsysc. The load average was running at about 2.0 when the system froze. I had to reset the computer. So far I have been able to freeze the computer twice and both times I was doing heavy disk to disk copying using rsysc. This is on 9.2.
That sounds very much like the problem. On one of the computers it was impossible to kill -9 the cp process and it had to be rebooted. (That was with the 9.1 system reading the 9.2 DVD.) As a further note on the double layer DVD problem, I just tried installing 9.2 on yet a third computer using the DVD and it failed to even boot.