From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 23:56:19 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA22557 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:56:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA22548 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:56:15 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA05582; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:55:37 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA22700; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:55:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA20882; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:42:07 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510040642.HAA20882@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Well... To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:42:07 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc Ramirez" at Oct 3, 95 03:47:01 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1422 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Marc Ramirez wrote: > > After having accidentally blown away /home, I find that the ft driver > doesn't seem to work anymore. This is on 2.1-STABLE vintage about two > weeks. When doing > > > root[/usr]# ft|restore tf - > > It gives the dump info > > > Dump date: Sun Oct 1 12:52:00 1995 > > Dumped from: the epoch > > Level 0 dump of /home on mramirez.sy.yale.edu:/dev/sd1a > > Label: none > > and proceeds to list files. > > After the first block (I think), it stops, I get console messages to the > effect > > > fdc0: output ready timeout > > fdc0: input ready timeout > > fdc0: input ready timeout I'm about to commit a minor fix that supresses these message that are confusing ft users in the regular case (they will be hidden behind "bootverbose" aka. boot -c). They are (for the ft driver) benign. > and then ft dies and I get > > > ... > > 21440 ./mail/jian > > 21774 ./jay > > 21775 ./jay/.bash_history > > Broken pipe > > root[/usr]# I cannot confirm this. I've just checked on my 2.1 test machine, and was able to succesfully extract an old dump tape. This is with a Colorado QIC-40 drive. Nobody has been touching that code in the last months, btw., neither in -current nor 2.1-stable. -- 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. ;-)