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- From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: nbuf=64/128 theory
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.195227.26752@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- References: <1992Nov8.130418.19237@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:52:27 GMT
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- If nothing else, do this on any machine that is both an nfs server and
- has a tape drive.
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- I was getting spurious SCSI buss device resets about every 2-4 hours of
- tape operation. This was with three different Exabyte drives and 1 HP
- DAT drive on two different Nexts. Problem went away with a larger nbuf
- number.
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- I've not a clue why I had these errors and no one else did. No one at
- exabyte or at Next was of help, although the fellow that wrote the SCSI
- driver went to great lengths to try to assist.
-