From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 27 04:07:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA08149 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 May 1997 04:07:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ui-gate.utell.co.uk (ui-gate.utell.co.uk [194.200.4.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA08143 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 04:07:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utell.co.uk (shift.utell.net [97.3.0.21]) by ui-gate.utell.co.uk (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03999 for ; Tue, 27 May 1997 12:06:46 +0100 (BST) Received: (from brian@localhost) by utell.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA06546; Tue, 27 May 1997 12:06:45 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:06:45 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199705271106.MAA06546@utell.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. References: <5m92fj$26v$1@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> From: brian@utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) Subject: Re: HELP! FBSD 2.2.2 tape problems! Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <5m92fj$26v$1@kralle.zdv.uni-mainz.de>, Supervisor writes: > I have many troubles since I switched from FBSD 2.1.7.1 to 2.2.2! > > We made backups of our serverdisks every week with the wangtek es5525 > tape drive and anything ran well! When we migrated from FBSD 2.1.7.1 > to 2.2.2 many problems occured! > > First I get a lot of error messages about command fails on our > NCR 53C810 SCSI controler (sometimes the controler fails on sd0 or sd1 or > sd5, disk 0, disk 1 and the cdrom respective). > > The problem with the controler is still present but sometimes the system > boots and we can work. I tried to dilatate the delay-time, but that has > had no effect! > > Then suddenly we lost our "primary partition table: no magic " on our > data disk! That is a big problem. So We tried to reformat the disk with > problems and then to replace the backup from the tape. But this seems > to be impossible! We can not replace the backup from our tape back to > the disk! We always get errors like /kernel: st0(ncr0:3:0): error code 0! > What happened to the system? What is that new in the 2.2.2 kernel for the > NCR controler that it isn't possible to replace tapes written with 2.1.7.1? > > Any kind of help is appreciated! I can't help here, but I think freebsd-questions (cc'd) is a more appropriate place for this question. > O. Hartmann -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !