Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 11:48:59 -0500 (CDT) From: mikebo@tellabs.com (Mike Borowiec) To: bugs@freebsd.org Cc: mikebo@tellabs.com (Mike Borowiec) Subject: FBSD v2.0.5R: AHA2742AT + Exabyte scrogged my root disk! Message-ID: <m0sYFpQ-000jBcC@tellab5.lisle.tellabs.com>
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Greetings - I'm truly amazed with the work done by the FreeBSD team, but today I'm an unhappy camper... After putting the finishing touches on my 2.0.5 configuration, I tried to load the 2.0.5 distribution tree from an Exabyte 8200 tape to disk. During the tar extract, I got the following messages repeatedly: st1: oops not queued biodone: buffer already done tar: read error on /dev/rst1: Input/output error ahc0: target 0, lun 0 (sd0) timed out Whenever I access the Exabyte, the root drive seems to be completely inaccessible. The tar extract finally failed, but I subsequently found that my root disk was completely trashed, chock full of corruption! To recover I had to run fsck several times and allow it to remove several dozen critical programs and configuration files. ARGH! Ever since moving to this Adaptec 2742AT, I've had nothing but trouble with FreeBSD. I'm seriously considering dumping the card and going back to my reliable old 1542B... EISA system board or no, I need stability and the use of both my tape drives (Exabyte 8200 and Archive Viper QIC150), both of which worked flawlessly with the 1542, both of which are utterly useless with the 2742AT and FreeBSD 2.0.5R. I've written to this list before and most of the time I get tremendous support - but this AIC7xxx driver/tape drive problem is another matter. This is just the latest catastrophy in the AIC7xxx vs. st() problems. I don't want to start a AIC7xxx vs. st() finger-pointing war - I just want this to work without trashing my system. I humbly suggest that more priority be placed on debugging this before 2.1R is released... I'm more than happy to spend hours to provide all the information regarding my machine/OS configuration, provided someone is willing to take a serious look into it... Regards, - Mike PS> I don't get these mailing lists, so please reply via e-mail. Thanks! -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Borowiec Network Operations Tellabs Operations, Inc. mikebo@TELLABS.COM 1000 Remington Blvd. MS109 708-378-6007 FAX: 708-378-6714 Bolingbrook, IL, USA 60440 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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