From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 14:24:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA09864 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:24:49 -0800 Received: from GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU (GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.91]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA09857 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 14:24:43 -0800 Received: from localhost by GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17748; 20 Mar 95 17:24 EST To: Mark Tinguely cc: TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 20 Mar 1995 09:21:26 -0600. <199503201521.AA11221@plains.NoDak.edu> Reply-To: moto@CS.cmu.edu From: moto@CS.cmu.edu Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 17:24:08 -0500 Message-ID: <17745.795738248@GS81.SP.CS.CMU.EDU> Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, >>>>> " " == Mark Tinguely writes: >> 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 I have a similar symptom with Exabyte 8205. Is there any way on FreeBSD 2.0 to restore from a tape created by 'dump 0uBf 2033646 /dev/rst0 /dev/sd0a' on FreeBSD 1.x? My 1.7G hard drive crashed and I deseprately need to restore it. Thanks! ============================================================================== Motonori Shindou Carnegie Mellon University SCS Graduate Student e-mail: moto@cs.cmu.edu, NiftyServe: GEG04056 WWW: http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001:/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/moto/WWW/moto-home.html TEL: 412-362-9636 FAX: 412-362-9634 ==============================================================================