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From: sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J Gerraty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: dump(8) gets upset when st0 gets soft (correctable) error.
Message-ID: <1993Mar23.182912.25699@melb.bull.oz.au>
Date: 23 Mar 93 18:29:12 GMT
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia
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On my wonderful new system with Julian's SCSI stuff loaded and
working nicely. I decided it was time for dump(8).
Well the tape streams beautifully (ad1542b set at 5.0Mb/s).
Eventually though it overruns or wants to change direction at
which point st0 reports:
st0: soft error(corrected)
st0: error ignored
and dump says:
DUMP: short write: got 0 instead of 10240
DUMP: restart the dump ("yes", "no")
the last bit is from memory so may not be accurate. Bottom line
though is that you cannot do a dump. Answering yes above,
doesn't help because the same thing happens again. Answering
no, ends the dump of course.
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Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au> (home)
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