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From: csilva@cs.sunysb.edu (Claudio Silva)
Subject: Problem with SCSI and IDE drives working together.
Message-ID: <1992Oct19.145452.555@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1992 14:54:52 GMT
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I have 386BSD installed on a 486-25, 20 MB RAM and an IDE 120 MB drive
for a couple of weeks with no big problems or compatibily issues, I
was able to run Xfree86 and other software posted on the net without
any problems.
Now I got a larger SCSI drive (500 MB Fujitsu + AHA 1542B) and
installed on my system with minor installation headaches. The problem
now is that the drive seems to work for some functions but on others
the system just crashes and usually destroy my super-block or leaves
the whole disk totally inconsistent.
Specifically, I have had the following problems :
1) COPYING FILES BETWEEN DISKS.
I can copy files between disks as long as I only
copy one file at a time. If I try things like
"cp <old-dir>/* <new-dir" the system just crashes.
I can copy single HUGE files with no problem. To
solve this problem I created a shell script that
call "cp" with the files one at a time.
2) REMOVING FILES FROM NEW DISK.
If I try "rm *" in the new disk, the system crashes
and certainly will destroy most of the data in the
new disk, sometimes the "rm <file>" works, sometimes
it doesn't.
I don't have any idea of what maybe causing these problems and I will
be very happy if someone could help solve them. Any pointers to
possible solutions would be very welcome.
Claudio.
(csilva@cs.sunysb.edu)