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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Exabyte 8mm and FreeBSD (and 4mm DATs) Date: 19 May 1996 12:43:23 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4nn51b$1ii@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ncrg3$98h@fnnews.fnal.gov> <4nf73f$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4nikbg$99r@news.tpp.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E forest@teamx.riatax.com (Forest Wilkinson) wrote: > I tried a Maynard 4mm DAT a couple of times, and it caused FreeBSD's > SCSI support to blow up in my face. First I got SCSI errors, then a > kernel panic. When I rebooted I found that my root filesystem had > been corrupted beyond repair. It was horrible. I hope that's fixed > in the next release. Your hope might be in vaine. You've never submitted a problem report (hint: use `send-pr') for it, so heck, how we are supposed to know about your troubles? Note that you should give as much details about the SCSI errors as you can. I don't know of anybody else ever mentioning a Maynard device, and it's always hard to track errors you can't reproduce yourself. The subsequent damage of the root file system sounds like a problem with the 2.1R `ahc' driver once it got confused by some SCSI errors (likely being in bad company with some over-eager fsck program). Problems of this kind are believed to be fixed now. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)