From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jun 19 23:07:45 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA27325 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:07:45 -0700 Received: from blob.best.net (blob.best.net [204.156.128.88]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA27319 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:07:44 -0700 Received: from shell1.best.com (shell1.best.com [204.156.128.10]) by blob.best.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id XAA19535 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:06:35 -0700 Received: from geli.clusternet (rcarter.vip.best.com [204.156.137.2]) by shell1.best.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id XAA25395 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:07:11 -0700 Received: (from rcarter@localhost) by geli.clusternet (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA00362; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:05:53 -0700 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 23:05:53 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Message-Id: <199506200605.XAA00362@geli.clusternet> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, rcarter@geli.com Subject: SOLVED: Re: more on st cataclysmic error 8-) Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Through process-of-elimination I think I've found the problem. It is the middle of June, temperatures have climbed into the middle 70Fs here, and damn, but the tape drive is overheating! I pulled it out of the case and have now just successfully backed up 1G+ twice in a row, so improved cooling might be the solution. (I installed this thing in Jan, and we've had a regular winter extending to middle June, very odd.) Russell