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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! FBSD 2.2.2 tape problems!
Date: 27 May 1997 11:06:45 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5m92fj$26v$1@kralle.zdv.uni-mainz.de>,
Supervisor <root@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> writes:
> I have many troubles since I switched from FBSD 2.1.7.1 to 2.2.2!
>
> We made backups of our serverdisks every week with the wangtek es5525
> tape drive and anything ran well! When we migrated from FBSD 2.1.7.1
> to 2.2.2 many problems occured!
>
> First I get a lot of error messages about command fails on our
> NCR 53C810 SCSI controler (sometimes the controler fails on sd0 or sd1 or
> sd5, disk 0, disk 1 and the cdrom respective).
>
> The problem with the controler is still present but sometimes the system
> boots and we can work. I tried to dilatate the delay-time, but that has
> had no effect!
>
> Then suddenly we lost our "primary partition table: no magic " on our
> data disk! That is a big problem. So We tried to reformat the disk with
> problems and then to replace the backup from the tape. But this seems
> to be impossible! We can not replace the backup from our tape back to
> the disk! We always get errors like /kernel: st0(ncr0:3:0): error code 0!
> What happened to the system? What is that new in the 2.2.2 kernel for the
> NCR controler that it isn't possible to replace tapes written with 2.1.7.1?
>
> Any kind of help is appreciated!
I can't help here, but I think freebsd-questions (cc'd) is a more
appropriate place for this question.
> O. Hartmann
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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