From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 07:22:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA28172 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 07:22:12 -0800 Received: from plains.NoDak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA28166 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 07:22:08 -0800 Received: by plains.NoDak.edu; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:21:26 -0600 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:21:26 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199503201521.AA11221@plains.NoDak.edu> To: TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If I try to backup something to the DAT, mainly from the scsi disk, the system > panics randomly after a few megabytes (it lasts much longer when data comes > from the IDEs disks but it also panics..) I am not sure this will help you, but I have a Adaptec 1542 and a Sony DAT. FreeBSD 2.x is a lot more picky about DAT use than FreeBSD 1.x, namely it does not like extremely large blocksizes. The problems I had were in reading a tape with dd or restore that was created with large blocksizes causes the system to panic. tar is a little more stable. try: /sbin/dump 0usdf 3940 61000 /dev/nrst0 /dev/rsd0a --mark.