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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.cccd.edu!usenet From: mpeer@cccd.edu (Michael S. Peer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Probs with Adaptec 2940 ??? Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:13:04 GMT Organization: Golden West College Lines: 27 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4kuomg$fd7@spock.dis.cccd.edu> References: <GORSKI.96Apr12224241@axiom.somewhere.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 It sounds like your SCSI hard disks have a bad sector(s). I am running 3 systems with 2940's and they are OK. I did have a problem when installing one hard disk. I had to use BIOS utilities, access with ctrl-A, to format hard disk, it took about 4 hours!!! I also had problems with drive translation of > 1GB hard disk option is SCSI BIOS. Michael Peer mpeer@cccd.edu In article <GORSKI.96Apr12224241@axiom.somewhere.de>, gorski@cips01.physik.uni-bonn.de says... > > >I've found some random errors in some of my tar-files. >Using gnutar under FreeBSD produces random errors while >extracting the archive. >The same procedure under DOS works fine. >Any hints? > >Thanks for reply. > >