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From: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: HELP on mtools
Date: 15 Mar 1993 08:44:37 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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I'm having no trouble doing mcopies -to- my hard drive, but I have
REAL progblems when I try to copy from it. This is bad.
I cannot understand why this is. From mtool's devices.c:
{'C', "/dev/rsd0d", 16536L, 16, 0, (int (*) ()) 0, 0, 0, 0}, /* BIG */
And from the directory listing:
crw-r----- 1 root operator 13, 3 Mar 13 17:48 /dev/rsd0d
>From the disklabel:
4 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 946176 348160 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 170 - 631)
b: 10000 1296124 swap # (Cyl. 632*- 637*)
c: 958464 348160 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 170 - 637)
d: 1306624 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 637)
(Yes, I added the last one myself.)
I notice that in conf.c the block scsi disk devices are in the /*4*/ line
and the characters are in the /*D*/ line. Maybe I messed something up here,
that was a hard patch after installing PatchKit0.2.1; Julian's SCSI drivers
had diffs from the conf.c before patchkit 0.2.1 changed it...
On the surface, it looks OK.. mostly like Julians...
I think things worked ok before I installed patchkit 0.2.1 and added
the new partition... what did I do wrong?
Oh yeah I have and Adaptec 1542B and a Maxtor760S drive. The problem is
very bad since it often causes immediate reboots, or panics. One time
it recovered after printing some wierd lines like:
p666
> [here I hit return]
p666
> [here I hit return]
Until it came back with a shell prompt. Once it did that then rebooted.
mcd seems to cause similar problems (core dumps, reboots..)
Thanks all.
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