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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ogicse!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!osynw From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Problems with SCSI and IDE drives working together. Keywords: n Message-ID: <1992Oct19.184954.4391@coe.montana.edu> Date: 19 Oct 92 18:49:54 GMT Article-I.D.: coe.1992Oct19.184954.4391 References: <1992Oct19.144609.441@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University Lines: 60 In article <1992Oct19.144609.441@sbcs.sunysb.edu> csilva@cs.sunysb.edu (Claudio Silva) writes: >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. > I had similar results to this when I added a second SCSI drive to my system. With one drive, my system was as stable as a rock with all of the patches I had put together installed, but when I added the second drive, any heavy disk activity paniced my system. Since that time, I have installed Julian's new SCSI drivers, and though I can still panic the system, it doesn't happen with near the frequency as before (Now it takes running a make;make clean in my kernel directory, which I suspect has nothing to do with the SCSI drivers.) Since installing Julian's new drivers, my machine is much more stable, and just for grins and giggles, I download the mt(1) command from gatekeeper.dec.com to work with my tape drive, and it worked *flawlessly*. I can now do multi-volume dumps, so I am one happy 386BSD'er. Now that I finally got all the bugs worked out of my system, I hope to get time to update the Bug List to sync with Terry Lambert's patch kit, and add a couple new patches. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home. work: (406) 994-5991 | Keeper of the Unofficial 386BSD Bug Report home: (406) 586-0579 | Please send bugs and/or fixes you find.