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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!usenet 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 Lines: 34 Message-ID: <1o1fllINN666@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sylvester.cc.utexas.edu 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. -- Protect our endangered bandwidth - reply by email. NO BIG SIGS! VaX#n8 vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu - finger for more info if you even care.