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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.sovam.com!sovam!Gamma.RU!srcc!not-for-mail From: "Eugene Radchenko" <genie@qsar.chem.msu.su> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Strange tape problem Date: 2 Jul 1997 07:27:36 GMT Organization: Dept. of Chemistry, Moscow State University Lines: 58 Message-ID: <01bc86b9$68f527e0$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: org.chem.msu.su Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1160 Cache-Post-Path: org.chem.msu.su!unknown@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43806 Hi! Recently I had two cases of the following problem while doing the unattended backup: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 28 04:30:01 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/nrst0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 14003 tape blocks on 0.01 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: End of tape detected DUMP: Closing /dev/nrst0 DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. ********* Here is how it looks in /var/messages: Jun 28 04:31:45 org /kernel: ahc0: target 3, lun 0 (st0) timed out Jun 28 04:31:45 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): BUS DEVICE RESET message queued. Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: ahc0: target 3, lun 0 (st0) timed out Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:20,0 Invalid command operation code field replaceable unit: 2 sks:cf,0 Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: ahc0: Issued Channel A Bus Reset #1. 1 SCBs aborted Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: st0: oops not queued Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: sd0(ahc0:0:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred field replaceable unit: 1 Jun 28 04:31:47 org /kernel: , retries:4 Jun 28 04:33:27 org /kernel: ahc0: target 3, lun 0 (st0) timed out Jun 28 04:33:27 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): BUS DEVICE RESET message queued. Jun 28 04:33:27 org /kernel: st0(ahc0:3:0): ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted Jun 28 09:50:05 org /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:29,0 Jun 28 09:50:05 org /kernel: sd1(ahc0:1:0): Power on, reset, or bus device reset occurred field replaceable unit: 1 Jun 28 09:50:05 org /kernel: , retries:4 ********** Usually it works fine, though. Even after thrasing root dump, it nicely copies 450 MB of /usr & /var. What does it mean? Something falling (drive/controller/tape)? Or is it high time to switch to 2.2.2? Thanks in advance Genie -- ######################################################### Eugene V. Radchenko Research associate, Computer Chemistry E-mail: genie@qsar.chem.msu.su http://org.chem.msu.su/~genie =================================================== Once installed, CD-ROM can be connected to Internet via your computer's modem ---- TV Commercial, Intel Corp. Russia