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From: randy@dsndata.dsndata.com (Randy Terbush)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: cp/cpio over NFS unreliable? [386BSD]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:35:06 GMT
Organization: Design Data
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Sender: randy@dsndata.uucp (Randy Terbush)
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In-Reply-To: alm@netcom.com's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:55:12 GMT

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com> writes:



  Andrew> cp'ing sbin/* across two NFS-mounted 386BSD systems with SMC
  Andrew> WD8003EP adapters yields errors like:

  Andrew> cp: ./inetd: No such file or directory

  Andrew> and though most files copy okay, the files for which an
  Andrew> error is reported get truncated.  Worse, when using cpio -p,
  Andrew> truncation occurs, but no errors are reported!

We have noticed this same problem using WD8003EP's with Dell SysVr4.
I have heard rumor that there may be some ROM problems with the EP's.
That came from Dell development.  Please follow-up your responses.

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