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- From: engel@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Christian Engel)
- Subject: 386BSD 0.1 success and tape problem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.150311.3229@cs.tu-berlin.de>
- Summary: error reading tapes, resid: 10240
- Keywords: 386BSD, SCSI-Tape
- Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de
- Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:03:11 GMT
- Lines: 62
-
- Hi out there,
-
- I got the 386BSD0.1 working on my system. I have two problems.
-
- Here is the system configuration :
-
- 486/33MHz - 256KB Cache
- 16 MB RAM
- ET4000/1MB VGA card
- AT-IO
- ADAPTEC 1542B
- SCSI Drive 0 : 330 MB Wren
- SCSI Drive 1 : 660 MB Wren
- SCSI Tape 2 : Wangtek 5150 ES
-
- I had no problems installing the system on my harddisk(s).
- I built a new kernel with the lp.c driver for the printer which was
- contributed to the 386BSD-0.0. I attached a terminal to com1 and everything
- worked fine up until this point.
- I installed the previously posted kmem-patch (problem occurred).
-
- I can write tapes without any problems. I am even able to read these tapes.
- By the way there are no speed problems, writing to and reading from tape
- works with reasonable speed.
-
- But I run into trouble trying to read tapes from a SUN (gnu-tar) and from
- another 486 machine with ISC-UNIX (SysV-ISC tar). 386BSD-0.1 shows the
- following behaviours:
-
- 1) SUN tape: (command: tar -xvf /dev/ras2a)
- - tape begins to run but does not read any input. After a while the
- system stops with resid: 10240 error
-
- 2) ISC tape: (same command as above)
- - system reads about 40 MBytes from the tape. Then it stops with
- an error message and resid: 10240 error
-
-
- Has anyone out there any ideas ? Unfortunately I have no manuals for the
- Adaptec controller so I cannot try to fix it by myself.
-
-
- :::::::::::
- 2nd Problem
- :::::::::::
-
- When I built a new kernel, I normally try to copy it to the root directory
- using a name, that doesn't exist in the root directory.
- Sometimes the system just stops execution while copying.
- No message is printed.
- After a restart
- and the file system repair, you can see that a file was created but that its
- length is zero.
-
- Any ideas or similar problems ?
-
-
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- Christian Engel, TU-Berlin mail: engel@cs.tu-berlin.de
- TFS, dept of theoretical computer science, formal specifications
- address: TU-Berlin, FR6-1, Franklinstr. 28/29, 1000 Berlin 10, Germany
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