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From: Grant Haidinyak <grant@iwv.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems untaring large files from HP DAT drive w/Adaptec 2940
Date: 4 Oct 1995 19:27:57 GMT
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System:
100MHz Pentium
4 GB SCSI Hard Drive
4mm HP SCSI DAT Drive
2940 Adaptec SCSI Controller
FreeBSD 2.0.5
Symptoms:
Trying to untar (read) large archives from the DAT Drive causes the SCSI
bus/SCSI Card to hang, thus causing the system to hang. I am able to
switch to different virtual consoles, but keystrokes aren't echoed.
How To Reproduce:
Untar a large archive (mine is about 250MB), after tar has read about a
quarter of the archive, I get a timeout (st0) message, followed by a
series of "timeout (sd0)" messages (occuring at about the same rate that
the disks get sync'd.
I am able to read small files from the tape, but I have problems with
large files.
anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?
thanks,
grant