Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 09:06:32 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bob@luke.pmr.com, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using amanda from ports Message-ID: <9509201506.AA28989@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <520.811603967@palmer.demon.co.uk> (message from Gary Palmer on Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:32:47 %2B0100)
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>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> writes:
Gary> There was a problem in the SCSI tape code (probably in
Gary> 2.0.5R also, as the bug was noticed (by me at least) after
Gary> the disk was pressed).
It was a problem with tape mounting. st.c from -current (well
-current as of a month ago, at least) had some corrections that fixed
the problem, and it worked with 2.0.5R. You could work around the
problem by
1 Never booting with a tape in the drive.
2 Doing a ``mt -f /dev/rst? status'' before inserting the tape.
3 Insert the tape
4 Do another status. Then use the drive happily.
Gary> ``spontaneously reboot'' == kernel stack overflow (if there
Gary> wasn't a panic message).
I used to have hard crashes when writing to a DAT drive: no
spontaneous reboot, no panic message, just a total lockup. I moved
the DAT drive away from the QIC and CD-ROM in the case and it worked
fine. It turned out heat was the culprit.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain
lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that tell the reader we are
going to have fun with this thing. -- Jack Handey
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