From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 28 09:08:43 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA16235 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:08:43 -0700 Received: from spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA16225 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 09:08:42 -0700 Received: by spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12GNU) id MAA07112 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:07:20 -0400 From: Kristyn Fayette Message-Id: <199507281607.MAA07112@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Subject: Floppy Tape timeout errors To: questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 12:07:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1357 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hiya, I've been backing up my system with my Colorado Jumbo 250 QIC-80 drive since 1.0.2. And, I think the 1.0.2 version (it was an add-on package then) worked the best. But 2.0.5's version seems to be better than 1.1.5.1's. In 1.1.5.1, I wasn't able to use ft & dump together to back up /usr (wd1e?). Dumping the root mount point, however, worked fine. Incidently, tar & ft always worked ok with either slice. Well, with 2.0.5, I seem to be able to backup /usr again with dump. I haven't actually let the dump run all the way thru yet, but it didn't bomb right away, which is a great sign! The problem I'm having now, tho, is whenever I do any operations with ft, I get: Jul 27 20:57:25 scylla /kernel: fdc0 input ready timeout or Jul 27 20:57:25 scylla /kernel: fdc0 output ready timeout These messages keep being repeated on the console, naturally, which is really annoying. I can't even guess at what might be causing this. My kernel config file has the default entries (I don't have fd1): controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 And the probs come back with: fdc0: NEC 72065B fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in ft0: Colorado tape Any ideas? -- -=(*)=- Kristyn Fayette -=(*)=- kristyn@gnu.ai.mit.edu