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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Problem with Julian's SCSI drivers
Date: 30 Sep 1993 17:20:40 GMT
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Adam David (adam@veda.is) wrote:
> I forgot to mention that there is also support for hardwiring device numbers.
> While we have a monolithic kernel, it is perhaps a bad idea to read in config
> info from different files during boot time. This will/may change when there
> are load/unloadable device drivers. Sorry, this is way off topic :-)

Speaking  of Julian's drivers, I installed  FreeBSD yesterday. Thanks a lot
for all  for  that fine piece  of  software... The  installation script  is
great, everything is very clean, congratulations !

But during the   installation, I encountered  a few  problems  : 1  have  a
Archive/Maynard  2 GB  DAT. It  is identified without   any problem by  the
autoconfig code, fine.  But I cannot read anything  from it unless I  write
something to it  before. I have a  complete backup of my  386BSD setup in 3
dumpfiles and it was unable to read anything from it.

I've  set the density (st  -f /dev/rst0 high_dnsty 19)  and used the hnrst0
device to read from the tape. Nothing, it always reported that my blocksize
was not  good (even though I've  put it with restore  -b),  that there were
errors reading from the tape and  so on. Until  I put a fresh cartridge and
write to it. I was sweating the first time it refused to read my tape...

Now all is installed and it keeps doing it...
i.e.
Verify tape and initialize maps
Tape read error: Input/output error

I know the tape is fine, if I write  something to another cartridge and put
the old one back I will be able to read it. Weird...

My setup is 486DX33, 16 MB, Adaptec 1542B + Micropolis 1624 640 MB +
Archive Python 2 GB DAT.

Any thought ?

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Ollivier ROBERT                                    roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
A FreeBSD & PERL addict...       PGPprint: 0023C49D 2E70CE5A 26708662 B8E8D709