From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 28 02:53:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16366 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA16276 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 02:52:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA28780 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:52:00 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA14522 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 11:51:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA23611 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:42:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603280842.JAA23611@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can't read this stupid DAT tape - ARGH! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:42:00 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <330.827931003@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 27, 96 04:50:03 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I think you gotta bump this one to 256 K, and recompile your world. > > Just for grins, I tried this. ``panic: double fault'' right upon > invoking init.. :-) See Justin's and David's discussion. That's the actual problem. Your best bet by now is to get your SGI tape again with a smaller blocksize (or to get it at a QIC-150 medium :). Note that at least the QIC-150 tapes from SGI are byte-swapped. -- 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. ;-)