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- From: kraus@rtsg.mot.com (David Kraus)
- Subject: SCSI, tar -cvMf /dev/fd1 errors, MCC .96
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Division
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:13:14 GMT
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- Just last night, for the first time, I tried doing a multi-volume tar to
- back up some of the mass of .tar.Z files I have laying around. (Been
- running Linux for about 2 weeks so far.) When I attempted this, though,
- every time that /dev/fd1 (a 3 1/2" HD floppy) is running at the HD starts
- up, I get horrendous noises from the floppy, a stream of 'Floppy Reset
- Called' messages, and at least 1 I/O error (don't remember the device, but
- can recreate pretty much at will).
-
- Setup is as follows:
-
- 386DX 33MHz
- AMI BIOS
- 4M RAM
- 4M swap
- /dev/sda ST296N with ST01 controller partitioned 40M Linux/40M DOS
- Linux everything is on /dev/sda1
- /dev/fd0 is 5 1/4" 1.2M
- /dev/fd1 is 3 1/2" 1.44M
- MCC .96 interim distribution
-
- Thus far, everything's been running great. But, if there is a problem with
- simultaneous disk accesses beyond just tar, it would mean not being able to
- easily back up the HD...
-
- This may have been covered long ago - checked the faq 06.1, which is the
- last I have, and didn't see mention of it there, though.
-
- What's going on?
- --
- Dave Kraus Internet: kraus@rtsg.mot.com
- Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group FidoNet : 1:115/439.8
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