From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Mar 9 10:14:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA03488 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-4-242.mu.de.ibm.net [139.92.4.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA03468; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:14:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA00904; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 10:22:18 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199703090922.KAA00904@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: tarkhil@aha.ru Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tar and Archive FT-60 trouble From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" X-Email: jhs@freebsd.org, Fallback: jhs@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de X-Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. X-Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available X-Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany X-Tel: +49.89.268616 X-Fax: +49.89.2608126 X-Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 Mar 1997 22:02:52 +0300." <199703081902.WAA02963@tarkhil.dialup.aha.ru> Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 10:22:17 +0100 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: Alex Povolotsky > Reply-to: tarkhil@aha.ru > Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 22:02:52 +0300 > > Hello! > > I've suddenly run into trouble: my Archive FT-60 often cannot read good > archives from good tapes. With v flag added, it works much better. The thing > appeared quite suddenly (most likely after CMOS failure). All my attempts to > tune CMOS properly failed. > > I just have no idea from where to begin digging... > > Alex. Not everything in an (AMD) BIOS is settable by menu. Do a reload , here's why: On my AMD BIOS I found that something got scrambled that reduced my performance by ~7 (yes Seven ... very slow) ! I reset all the cache stuff I could find, still no good, gave up, did a "Reload with Power On Defaults" then a Reload with BIOS defaults" -- Problem went away ! Good Luck Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/